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SunVideo Plus for PCI User's Guide

Video Broadcast and Video Receiver

These two programs, xil_video_broadcast and xil_video_receiver, are modified XIL examples which run on the SunVideo Plus card. The SunVideo version of these demonstrations can be run under the SunVideo Binary Compatibility Mode without modification.

The xil_video_broadcast Program

The following shows the command-line syntax for the xil_video_broadcast example: 

hostname% xil_video_broadcast options

The following table describes command options and the default setting.

Table 4-8 xil_video_broadcast Options

Legal Options 

Description and Values 

Default 

-C %s

Compression type (CellB, Jpeg, UYVY) 

CellB

-H %s

Destination hostname 

local subnet

-c %d

Broadcast channel (0-9) 

0

-F %s

File of destination hostnames 

none

-D %s

Name of SunVideo Plus device 

/dev/olk0

-I %d

Select input channel 

1

-P %d

Delay x ms per transmit 

0

-d %s

Save bitstream in file  

NULL

-f %d

Frames to broadcast 

18000

-i %d

Frames to skip between capture 

0

-m %d

Maximum frames to buffer 

2

-s %d

Shrink factor 

2

-w %d

Width of capture window 

NTSC: 640

PAL: 768

-h %d

Height of capture window 

NTSC: 480

PAL: 576

-x %d

x coordinate of display window 

(random) 

-y %d

y coordinate of display window 

(random) 

Legal Switches

 

-p

Disable preview 

 

-b

Enable display of partial CellB frames by receiver 

 

-t

Disable transmission 

 

-E

Exit on first error 

 

-v

Print verbose messages 

 

The xil_video_receiver Program

The following shows the command-line syntax for the xil_video_receiver example: 

hostname% xil_video_receiver options

The following table describes command options and the default setting.

Table 4-9 xil_video_receiver Options

Legal Options 

Description and Values 

Default 

-C %s

Compression type (CellB, Jpeg, UYVY) 

CellB

-c %d

Broadcast channel (0-9) 

0

-f %d

Frames to broadcast 

18000

-x %d

x coordinate of display window 

(random) 

-y %d

y coordinate of display window 

(random) 

Legal Switches

 

-b 

Enable display of partial CellB frames by receiver 

 

-E 

Exit on first error 

 

-v 

Print verbose messages 

 

Example Usage

To broadcast/receive video, type: 

hostname% xil_video_receiver -C CellB
hostname% xil_video_broadcast -C CellB