On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:54:38PM +0000, Anton Coetzee wrote:
> I've been doing quite a bit of (highly unscientific) experimentation on
> this.
Thanks, its the very kind of info I've been looking for.
> A big issue in quality comes down to playback. I have yet to find a
> *decent* mpeg viewer for linux that will do fullscreen playback (yeah, I
> know, mtv - but it's very choppy at fullscreen).
I have a hardware MPEG 1 card, which I've been using for playback
under linux. The card isn't made anymore and is based on the
C-Cubed CL480 chipset.
Are there any hardware MPEG playback cards for linux? Didn't I
read that there was support for the DXR2 board from Creative Labs?
> I haven't tried anything higher yet, maybe this weekend.
> Playback on a TV would probably look a whole lot better than a small
> monitor close-up.
TV's do have different characteristics than computer monitors.
I have captured, using a FutureTel something-or-other ($250
MPEG 1 parallel port thingy) under M$ Windoze some Babylon 5
sequences (action type) at 1.7mbs for video and 224kbs for
audio and sitting about 10 feet from a 19" Sony Profeel TV
Monitor found the experience very satisfactory.
I played the data back on the aforementioned hardware MPEG 1 decoder
card.
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