From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 13 11:59:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA10282 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10275 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA07308; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:58:07 -0800 (PST) To: Joe Greco cc: jsuter@intrastar.net (Jacob Suter), isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bang bang bang bang - lame lame lame lame In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:51:22 CST." <199611131751.LAA23456@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:58:07 -0800 Message-ID: <7306.847915087@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To decode it in real time, however, and display it, would probably > require a very very fast machine... Naw, just some dedicated hardware. My CD-I will do real-time MPEG decoding and it simply requires a module in the back which contains 2 motorola DSPs. Picture quality is excellent, *depending on how well the source was compressed*. Apparently it costs a bit more to do it right and takes more computational time, but when that's the case the visual quality is (to my novice eyes, anyway) indistinguishable from an SVHS tape when played on my Sony 27" multisystem TV. On some of my earlier CD-I movies you can occasionally see jaggies, but even so you've got to be looking for them. Jordan