From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 9 6: 0:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699C714C43 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cc@137.org) Received: from ameslab.gov (friley-160-235.res.iastate.edu [129.186.160.235]) by friley-160-236.res.iastate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC51123; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:00:19 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <382828F3.FB83AD2F@ameslab.gov> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:00:19 -0600 From: Chris Csanady X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, ja, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Jon Smith , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sigma Designs pleads impossible :( References: <199911082257.OAA90607@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > With regard to using the Hollywood Plus under NON-Windows environments, I > > finally got Sigma Designs to say the following: > > > > Hi, > > Our engineers were working on it, after many unsuccessful trials they found > > out that it is not possible to use the EM8300 chip for that purpose. > > Sorry but that is not possible. > > Thank you, > > mc > > > > I would call that pretty well as defective as a WIN-modem. > > What is em8300 chip and are they any pointers to a datasheet? In my opinion, their cards suck. I actually tried one out, but you can't run it at even a moderate resolution without serious video degredation. Even with good cables, I think the pass through solution is not acceptable. Unless you like to run at 800x600 or less, you will probably want to purchase a graphics card with an integrated dvd decoder instead. I think it would be much more worthwhile to support these.. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message