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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Anyone know of any software for playing Video CDs? 
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Eric L. Hernes writes:
 > Amancio Hasty writes:
 > >
 > >Hi Jordan, 
 > >
 > >Omnimedia sells board which we have a driver for and Brian Litzinger wrote
 > >an applicatio which is capable of playing back cdi and videocd.
 > >
 > 
 > I've got a driver for Visual Circuits mpeg-I isa cards.  I've got it
 > on the way-back burner to put it in current someday (there weren't any
 > objections from committers', just don't let it stagnate).  The cards are
 > ~$400 or so.  It'll play system streams just fine.  Visual Circuits
 > is working on a real-time encoder, that I'm hoping to play with someday
 > too...
 > 
$400 sounds kind of steep for a card that cannot do DMA into video
memory...
(since it's an ISA card it obviously cannot DMA to PCI memory, right?)

Pete