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Honored ContributorDVI 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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Honored ContributorIt would seem that 720p HD would fit the channel of the gigabit ethernet, no? Excluding blanking it would be 1280x720x16x60 = ~884megbits. Whether there is actually this much efficiency in the packetizing is unknown to me. It is part of my question as I don't know how this packetizing actually works. Even if the direct HD streaming wouldn't work and something like mpeg compression is employed the original question remains:
Do you know if I can just send Avalon-ST packets(e.g. from VIP modules) that contain video to the TSE block and assume it takes care of the format conversion or am I missing some steps?
