libetherpix

1) EtherPix library

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3) EtherPix is a large scale display architecture that is driven using UDP/IP.

4) It consists of single pixels that are connected to chains. A number of those
5) pixel chains is then connected to a so called distributor module that
6) receives data over ethernet and distributes it to the pixel chains.
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8) The protocol used on UDP is MCUF (microcontroller unit frame, see
9) http://wiki.blinkenarea.org/index.php/MicroControllerUnitFrame). However,

10) as EtherPix displays can have more than 65536 pixels, multiple MCUF packets

11) are sent for one frame - a single MCUF frame to every distributor.
12) The coordinates of the pixels in the MCUF packets do not correspond to pixel
13) locations, but to pixel addresses. The y coordinate is the number of the
14) output of the distributor and the x coordinate is the number of the pixel

15) in the chain. The number of channels is always 1 (monochrome)  or 3 (RGB) and
16) the maximum value is always 255 (8 bit per channel).

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18) This library can be used to send the required UDP packets to the EtherPix

19) display to make it show images and/or videos.
20) As the libarary has to know how the pixels are wired and where there are
21) located (i.e. which pixel in the source image they represent), a rather
22) complex config file is needed. Examples of config files can be found in
23) "examples/config" and example code showing how to use the library is
24) located in "examples/src".
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