From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jul 26 15:34:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23543 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from u2.farm.idt.net (root@u2.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23536 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sequoia (ppp-34.ts-1.mlb.idt.net [169.132.71.34]) by u2.farm.idt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA19256 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:34:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33DA7B77.794BDF32@idt.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:34:31 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software MPEG-2 (Was: Posting prefix) References: <199707262140.OAA11329@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... > 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