From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 6 11:05:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11796 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA11788 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:05:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA22006 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:45:54 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA01952; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:24:49 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199902061824.TAA01952@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Something to show off...? In-Reply-To: from The Hermit Hacker at "Feb 6, 99 05:30:56 am" To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:24:48 +0100 (CET) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As The Hermit Hacker wrote... > 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* >From playing with blender a bit I'd guess you need the heftiest CPU money can buy, and then buy the best video card from the money left. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message