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Re: off topic: dvd question



>Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>>
>> Simple answer. Not possible...
>>
>> Not simple answer, even if u pass the decoding issue, there are so much data
>> moving to show the pics (and we're talking something that 100Base T won't
>> even handle it) so you can't...
>
>AFAIK mpegII is 6-12 Mbits/Sec (which may pass via 10BaseT)
>my nics are 13Mbits/s so it should be enough

The theoretical limit of Ethernet is 10Mb/s. No NIC can ever reach
that limit (it is the nominal bit rate value). As Ariel correctly
noted, 2 station 10BaseT network (or a two-station coax setup) can
sometimes get as high as 8 or 8.5Mb/s.

Moral: You don't have 13Mb/s NICs :-)

Of course, with 100Mb/s, it's a different story. Anyway, do not expect
to reach 80Mb/s with two Fast Ethernet NICs, since you may hit the PC
speed limit... (bus, disk access, whatever).

Back to the original issue, I'm not too sure the assertion Hetz made
above. 100Mb/s is quite a lot. A DVD gets enough juice out of an IDE
connection. This may translate to 3-4 MBytes/s, which are 24-32Mb/s.
Still within the scope of Fast Ethernet. Obviously this assumes that
the decoder is on the local (display) machine, and only the DVD is
remote.

You *should* think about things like sustained information rate and
suchlike; if this is applied in a real (even small) network, you will
undoubtedly see unstable picture, due to the burstiness of Ethernet.

All that does not mean that there *are* such solutions (I have no idea
- I would assume not); just discussing the "potential".

Doron Shikmoni