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A realtime streaming client on top of DFB

At my faculty the [IMG (http://multimedia.polito.it/)] group is developing the [LS3 (http://streaming.polito.it/)] streaming suite, which is made of a streaming server named [Fenice (http://streaming.polito.it/server)] and a streaming client named [Nemesi (http://streaming.polito.it/client)] . The Nemesi streaming client is provided with a GTK user interface and renders video using SDL libraries, so it's really easy building a small streaming client running on top of DFB passing thru GTK+ on DFB and SDL on DFB libraries.

Remember you'll need to tell SDL to use the DFB backend before running the nemesi player with

export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directfb