I am curious if anyone here have ideas on how large matrix manufacturers accomplish the task of receiving data, processing it into whatever format is needed, and sending it out to the panel. Specifically, the software side of things. Whether it's a still image, or video. I'm not trying to compare what's out there versus what an Arduino can do. I'm just curious if there's any kind of method to the madness. Are they using specialized hardware solutions? Expensive processing software?
By the time it reaches the display device, video is just a succession of still images.
How fast you can present them is the problem.
No madness involved.
There is no one approach. One popular method is to split it up into many small parts each with it's own processor. This is the way that LCDs work. The processors are the resin blobs on the back.
So there are specific hardware pieces that are processing the stream of data? Comparing this to what we're all doing to the Atmel AVRs, we're writing software to do everything. So are there solutions that we can interface with? Or is that outside of the realm?
These processor blobs are chip IC, these are only available in real bulk and are not easy to mount at home. So yes it is out of the realm.
Oh I wasn't referring to that. I was more thinking of whether there is a solution that we can interface with through an Arduino (hey, the Duo will be released eventually, right?) You're right, I'm not thinking of those blobs, but I have to believe that there's something out there we can use ...