From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Dec 15 01:14:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA10042 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from smtp.creative.net (cybere.creative.net [207.137.200.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA10030 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tristan@mpegtv.com) Received: from tristan (port8.creative.net [207.137.201.8]) by smtp.creative.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA14036; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:11:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3494F3B0.5AB588E4@mpegtv.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:09:04 -0800 From: Tristan Savatier Organization: MpegTV, http://www.mpegtv.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: Petri Helenius , Luigi Rizzo , multimedia@freebsd.org, don@partsnow.com Subject: Re: RTP tools (was: Re: Remote and Voice control) References: <199712150859.AAA00631@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: > > > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > > XIE is supposed to provide a general image plus conversion facility as > > > to if I can get different vendors to accelerate XIE is a different > > > story. > > > > What's XIE ? Is that like XIL ? > > X Imaging extensions. > > > By the way, another point: Microsoft is already working on an API > > that takes interlaced into consideration. They do that because > > it becomes possible to implement MPEG-2 (DVD) in software, using > > MMX and some hardware acceleration. > > You probably need a PII 300Mhz to do that and then your PC > can only do that . At comdex, I have seem the Compcore DVD player run at 22 Frames/sec on a P200 with a graphic card that does hardware MCP, YUV->RGB and Zoom. (Note: MCP = Motion Compensation). > With Linux, FreeBSD, OSS and XFree86 it can recover. Possible, but all the money that my company sees comes from people running Solaris or HP, unfortunately. I have seem no revenue at all from the Linux market, except a few dollar per month from shareware. With Solaris, HP etc, people are ready to pay tens of thousand of dollars to get some multimedia technology. > The issue > with the traditional workstation is cost both of software and hardware > which we can drive down with PC platforms. Yes, but the FBI, the CIA, NASA, and all the other big Unix corporate customers don't run Linux too much... > We are not hacking on FreeBSD for $$$. Good for you. I have passed the age where I was doing that just for fun. Now I work only for fun + $$$$. And I mean real $$$$, not just enough to pay my rent. -t