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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

DVI to Ethernet

Hello All, I'm looking at my options to build a system where a video signal from DVI would be converted to ethernet packets. This would be for a streaming application. DVI data is converted w...
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13 years ago

It is definitely not exactly straight forward. All video packet must be compressed before it is encapsulated to Ethernet packet. This would involve not just FPGA, but also some form of TCP/IP work.

Ethernet definitely cannot support uncompressed video as what Socrates has said. Why do you want to do that anyway.