From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 6 01:31:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15918 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 01:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0716.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15912 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 01:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAA04653; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:30:56 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:30:56 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Luigi Rizzo cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something to show off...? In-Reply-To: <199902060610.HAA08744@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Can someone suggest an app or demo that I can run, under FreeBSD, to "wow" > > ppl? I got this nice video card, and I frankly don't know what to do with > > it :( Its a 3D/video acceleration card that is supported by XFree86, and > > that quite a few ppl have been drooling over to put into a Win95 "game > > server" :) I don't think I'm getting much out of it with plain X running, > > and even if its just something to show off what I can do, that would be > > cool... > > try Blender ? or mpegtv (mtv), or fxtv (if you have a video acquisition > card)... no video acquisition card yet...next toy... downloaded blender...going to have to flip to my old card and see if I notice a difference between the two...tried a few of the demos in the tutor pack, and altho they look impressive, they look slow too, but I'm curious as to whether they'd look worse with my old card or not *shrug* Thanks though, gives me something to work and play with now :) Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message