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The Video-Whale Project

Concept: Umer Anwar Sheikh Technical insight: Dr. Lutfullah Kakakhel Developer: Zeeshan Ali Khattak. The Video-Whale Project. What is Video-Whale?. An Open Source Video-Wall implementation.

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The Video-Whale Project

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  1. Concept: Umer Anwar Sheikh Technical insight: Dr. Lutfullah Kakakhel Developer: Zeeshan Ali Khattak The Video-Whale Project

  2. What is Video-Whale? • An Open Source Video-Wall implementation • A collection of multiple screens, configured to act as one big screen

  3. The Hardware • 16 displays • 5 machines connected through an ethernet network: • A Server (Streamer) • Four Clients • Each group of four displays controlled by a single machine

  4. The Software • GNU/Linux (http://www.linux.org) • X Window System (http://www.x.org) • Xinerama • Gstreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org) • GNOME (http://www.gnome.org)

  5. What is Xinerama? Xinerama is an X extension that allows one to extend his/her desktop across multiple screens What is Gstreamer? Gstreamer is a multimedia framework which aims to be the future back-bone of GNOME and Unix/Linux Multimedia

  6. Achievements Highly appreciated around the globe, specially in the open-source community. Sources of fame: • http://www.slashdot.com • The Linux Magazine (March 2003 edition) • http://www.gnomedesktop.org • Many more.

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