Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:34:31 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software MPEG-2 (Was: Posting prefix) Message-ID: <33DA7B77.794BDF32@idt.net> References: <199707262140.OAA11329@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty wrote: > > I am afraid that just because Intel tried and failed does not mean > that we can't do it. Too many open questions. Yes. > > Is the programmer or team competent? There is a huge difference > between someone working 9 and 5 and a nearly obsessed programmer > or hightly motivated programmer tackling the problem. Uh-huh... <smile> > Which platform where they using? > > Did they use directdraw ? (assuming that they used win95 or winnt) > > What resolution , color depth and bitrate where they using? > > The list goes on and on... Of course they did not provide those details... > > At the very least is worth investing the possibility of > decoding mpeg2. > Sure. I guess I was just trying to imply that for the immediate future, until some(many?) of us get new (future) faster machines (or motherboards), a driver for a hardware decoder board might be more useful... Gary
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