Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:00:19 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Jon Smith <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sigma Designs pleads impossible :( Message-ID: <382828F3.FB83AD2F@ameslab.gov> References: <199911082257.OAA90607@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
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