Re: Studio-grade hardware support?

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:48:25 -0500
Billy Biggs <vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brian J. Murrell (v4l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> 
> > > Well sure but my dxr2 hardware decoder can play to a TV at 59.94
> > > from a DVD and it works well.  In movietime I intend to get software
> > > DVD playback to 59.94 working also.  If you go pick up a dxr3 it can
> > > probably do it too.
> > 
> > So why dick around with software and G400's and Radeons if a dxr[2|2]
> > does the job well?  Or am I mis-understanding just how well the dxrs
> > do/don't work?  MPEG2 only I guess.
> 
>   You can usually send MPEG1 too, you can't send them uncompressed
> frames.  So you can't like, composite your cool OSD on top of your
> DVD-Video and send that out.

	The em8300 supports RLE encoded subpictures for OSD. slowly. xine + dvdnav will
even use them with a dxr3 card, just not very well :)

 - Eric





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