On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:15, Q wrote: > Well I asked about this on JustLinux.com. It was them that pointed out the > Hollywood range of cards too me. But I guess they got it wrong too. > > Is there such a thing as a hardware decoder? It would be nice to be able to > have something that decoded my DVDs in just the same way my stand alone dvd > player did. I tried seaching Google on this but all I could find were people > talking about the Hollywod cards and another similar (seemingly > discontinued) Creative card.
There is something as a hardware decoder... The Hollywood cards. They do mpeg2 decoding in hardware. Your DVD player read a stream of data that happens to be mpeg2, and that can be passed onto your hardware decoder if you have one, or let software handle it. > > It seem a kind of obvious thing that there should be a card like this, but > maybe there is a good reason there isn't? > > Q > > PS > > Thanks for stopping me from throwing good money away for nothing very > useful. :) > > <snip> -- Kim Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
