Eric Jorgensen (alhaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > So why dick around with software and G400's and Radeons if a > > > dxr[2|2] does the job well? [...] > > > > 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 :) Sure but that wasn't my point. My point was that I can't take arbitrary input and send it out without first encoding it to MPEG. Also, DVD-style RLE encoded subpictures are really quite poor and annoying. I have some notes on how much they suck over here: http://vektor.theorem.ca/dvd/dvd/ (url subject to change). They're insufficient for nice-looking OSDs, IMHO. -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx