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BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk)
johnslater writes: A friend at the BBC has written a short description of his project to deliver UHD video over IP networks. The application bypasses the OS network stack, and constructs network packets directly in a buffer shared with the network hardware, achieving a ten-fold throughput improvement. He writes: "Using this technique, we can send or receive uncompressed UHD 2160p50 video (more than 8 Gbps) using a single CPU core, leaving all the rest of the server's cores free for video processing." This is part of a broader BBC project to develop an end-to-end IP-based studio system.
why not do 720p for everybody first, with no region locking or lockouts? fuck this uber hq shit. dvd quality is, quite frankly, good enough for all but the most anal of viewers.
Shush! If UHD doesn't take, we'll be forever stuck with 1080p computer monitors. Do not be the person who prevented 8 MPixels desktop monitors from becoming mainstream.
Dear Sirs,
I'm the head of the UHD Panel Manufacturers' Association. I'm sorry to say that, having read the grandparent post by an Anonymous Coward, our members have unanimously decided to cancel all further development and manufacturing of ludicrously high-definition panels, and to shut down the association. In fact, we've decided to stop bothering with 1080p panels as well and in future will just be selling 1280 x 720 displays.
The parent was correct in identifying the influence of a single post by an Anonymous Coward on a niche website; we consider Slashdot the be-all-and-end-all of our market research and as a result of that post we're ending our involvement in a potential multi-billion dollar industry.
In fact, we're even considering going back to CRT displays, you ungrateful wretches.
Yours sincerely,
Hwang Beom-seok,
President of the UHD Panel Manufacturers Association