MD: lifetime warranty can be good
My wife dropped our 10 year old Henkels carving knife which broke in two. Sent back, no reciept, 3 weeks later got back brand new knife. These things sell for over 100 bucks. Regards, Leland McArthy - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: E-town MD article
Riggs wrote: Then again it does mention that MP3 is inferior to ATRAC ! Meanwhile, in other etown editorial on MD, it carefully points out that MD sound quality is less than CD quality. This seemingly manditory comment (which I think Sony is to blame for by not being more aggressively positive during the MD intro since they were reeling from the industry backlash to consumer DAT) about MD is somehow errelavent for MP3. MP3 is simply great, so cool, so e-modern. Never a mention about sound quality. Regards, Leland - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: SBLive Optical Digital I/O Card
Hello, Sometime ago there was an Optical Digital I/O Card on sale through Creative Labs Web Site. When I went (through the web) to order it the page was saying that the current product is out of stock. Did anybody got a chance to buy one of these and does anybody know where can I order one for my sb live ? Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Bus congenstion
My PC setup is as follows: O/S: Windows 98 (Original full release) CPU: AMD K6-3/400 M/bd: MVP3 TI5VG+ with 1Mb Cache RAM: 2x16Mb EDO 60nS SIMMS That's a joke, right? HD: 4.3Gig (2Gig free) Video: Creative Savage 4 AGP 32Mb (2x AGP on m/bd v/card) You really have as much Video RAM as you have system RAM? Audio: Creative Live Player 1024 CD: Creative CD-RW 2 2 24 FD: Standard 3.5" Modem: Rockwell chipset ISA v90 Christopher Spalding Genius, generally excellent and gifted person. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer
FrEnCh RuLeZ ! ;-) Seriously, can anyone be interested in finding a place in Paris where one can find 80min MDs apart for Frenchies who live in Paris ? I don't think so, and don't worry... we ARE sorry for writing in french, but as it was quite useless information for 99,99% of ya, we did not really care. Ok, now pls drop this heavy thing you were about to throw at my head and smile :-) see ? I wish all of ya have a nice day. Yann - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
Try turning of anything that isn't needed. Look in the task manager and shutdown as many things as you can, one by one. Once you have identified which one is causing the problem, either remove it permently or get an updated version of it. Also in set up mode, try disabling any power managment or screen savers. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: SBLive Optical Digital I/O Card
Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sometime ago there was an Optical Digital I/O Card on sale through Creative Labs Web Site. When I went (through the web) to order it the page was saying that the current product is out of stock. Did anybody got a chance to buy one of these and does anybody know where can I order one for my sb live ? I've tried to order one, around six months ago, and it was out of stock. My advice is: don't wait, because you might be waiting forever. Check www.hoontech.com for their optical/digital boards for the SB Live! I've bought one, and it's perfect (and cheaper than the Creative one). Luca - still wondering why Liquid Audio skips while WinAmp doesn't. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: SB Live value and Hoontech addaptor.
I have a SB Live value sound card and just got a hoontech addaptor board. I see a red light from the optical out and my MD recorder says digital in. but when I try to record it doesn't do anything (like auto-seance the audio playing) there is no volume control for the digital out in software only in. Am I missing something? Thanks, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Craig Goligowski * Hastings Entertainment, Inc.Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (806) 351-2300 ext. 3834 http://www.gohastings.comFax: (806) 351-2727 Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: JE510 SCMS bug
I read somewhere that there is a bug on a Sony MD deck (don't know which one). You could try this: Set your JE510 in recording pause mode, and let the source play. Keep switching the sterio/mono switch, untill the "cannot copy" messa- ge goes away, and then press play on the JE510. I don't know if this works, because i own a JE520, and it didn't work on it. Bye, Joost (don't mind my bad English, because i life in the Netherlands). Someone wrote: I've looked over the minidisg.org 'hacking' area, but can't see anywhere where I might find information on disabling the SCMS on Sony JE510. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: (OT) graphic cards
Go here for OpenGL benchmarks http://www.anandtech.com/html/articledisplay.cfm?document=1056pagenum=10 Go here for Direct3d bechmarks http://www.anandtech.com/html/articledisplay.cfm?document=1056pagenum=19 Both of these was with a non-overclocked, non-ddr, non-pimped GeForce256. The DDR GeForce has a 25% performence increase at hi res games, more memory bandwidth (DDR=Double Rate Dram, gets info on in and out bits). As you can see they are closely matched in OpenGL. However, even a TNT beats the G400 in Direct3d. Matrox cards are slow period. Why would I need dualhead when I am watching a movie on DVD on my tv? Sure its a cool feature, but it has no good reason to be there. Shawn - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
Huh?? What has this to do with MD? Cheers, Ralph - just wondering -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: SDMI killer
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Indiana wrote: file that killed SDMI protection. Its name was something like unscrew.exe or unscrewed.exe. That would be unfuck.exe - I used to have it here but I don't anymore, you could look for it with www.ftpsearch.com. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: SBLive Optical Digital I/O Card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca - still wondering why Liquid Audio skips while WinAmp doesn't. It's iNtel and God (Bill Gates) that's behind it. They want you to upgrade to their lates Pentium 3.141593 and Windoze 00... Cheers, Ralph - Overclocked his PII 233 @ 300 and his Riva 128 from 100 to 130... -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: (OT) graphic cards
"Shawn M. Pierce" wrote: areas. Their drivers are some of the worst availible, not only does it take them 6 months to release a viable MSHQ certified driver, but they also cannot release a viable OpenGL ICD. For any games, the Matrox cards bite the big one. They are slow and ungainly. U can buy much better card by The G400 scores better in both image quality and frame rates than any NVidia card with many Direct3D apps, and the poor old Voodoos get left behind once 32 bit colour is demanded. G400s handle very high resolutions better than anything else. The TNTs frame rates drop markedly over 1280x1024, allowing the G400 to surpass it. Who cares if the G400 is 20fps behind at 640x480, when we're talking about 90 or so fps anyway. Yes, Matrox got their fingers burnt by never releasing a decent OpenGL ICD for the G200, but the situation is vastly different for the G400. A working ICD ships with the card which only lags behind the competition due to its newness. Matrox have learnt their lesson, and are working very hard to get a high performance OpenGL ICD out. I personally have a GeForce 256 (Creative Labs Annihilator). I play Quake, Quake3, Unreal Tournament, and many other games. I also use my The G400 dual head feature rocks, lets see you run Combat Flight Sim on your monitor, while watching the maps on your TV screen with your GeForce. -cb - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
From: Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:31 AM Subject: Re: MD: "Hesitating" sound Huh?? What has this to do with MD? Cheers, Ralph - just wondering -- It started off because somebody was getting stuttering from the sound card then things got a little out of hand. My last three words on the subject are these and these alone. -- PRIVATE EMAILS PLEASE! - Magic -- "Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration." Location : Portsmouth, England, UK Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk (under construction) EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: OT: re: Hesitating sound
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Shawn M. Pierce wrote: And considering that ISA busses and PCI busses are on different pathways, a video card would not hold up a soundcard, its the other way around. Thats why when you take out all of your ISA cards, you get a 5-7% speed increase...I know this because I tried it. I don't think so. In modern day systems, the ISA bus is attached to the PCI bus with a bridge chip. With a PCI video card, the data flow to an ISA, or a PCI, sound card can be interrupted by the data traffic to the video card. On the other hand, with Intel chipsets, the AGP bus is seperate from the PCI bus. So traffic to an AGP video card would not affect your PCI/ISA cards. [snip] Have you ever looked at the bus scematic for BX chipsets? PCI bus is on a different bus, the AGP is pretty much on the PCI bus. ISA is on a different one. I've got a PDF copy of the BX and PIIX4 chipset datasheet on my hard drive. Look at page 12 of this document: ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/29063301.pdf and you will find a nice block diagram of the bus architecture of a system with an Intel BX chipset. You will also see that the ISA bus is attached to the PCI bus by way of a bridge chip. It also shows that the AGP bus, is totally seperate of the PCI bus. ***The CPU has to send so much data to the graphics card, that it has no time to get data to the sound card, hence the stuttering*. The problem here is that video card manufacturers are writing their video card drivers to be extremely agressive with bus utilization. They are trying to squeeze every last bit of throughput from the bus that they can get, to drive up their benchmark scores. -- Jason K. Fritcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer
Sorry, Its my fault. I was writting directly to Arnaud Devilde but didn't see that the reply to was set to the list. Regis "Flávio J. Moritz Jr. (@Dígitro)" wrote: Looks like everybody else speaks French, except me. Come on, guys! Please, write in English, German, Spanish or Portuguese, so I can understand what you're trying to say. Be polite to the others. []'s Flavio -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yann LEZY Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer Salut ! J'en ai trouve ici et la, principalement a la Fnac (dont pas forcement donnes, mais bon). Je n'ai pas non plus cherche dans toutes les Fnacs, mais la Fnac Velizy2 en a. Regis Priqueler wrote: Je cherche desesperement des 80 min sur Paris et impossible d'en trouver. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer
From: Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 10:45 AM Subject: Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer Hmm, and now it's my turn ;-) Where can I find 80 minutes (preferable HiSpace) in Grenoble? Wo kan Ich 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble finden? Waar kan ik 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble vinden? Ou je trouve des 80 minute (HiSpace prefere) on Grenoble? Ka chi ta u 80 imute (HiSpace) ki Grenoble? Woe kin ich 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble vinde? Cheers, Ralph - showing off Well if we're all at it. Jurer pna V svaq 80 zvahgrf (cersrenoyr UvFcnpr) va Teraboyr? Jb xna Vpu 80 zvahgra (UvFcnpr) va Teraboyr svaqra? Jnne xna vx 80 zvahgra (UvFcnpr) va Teraboyr ivaqra? Bh wr gebhir qrf 80 zvahgr (UvFcnpr cersrer) ba Teraboyr? Xn puv gn h 80 vzhgr (UvFcnpr) xv Teraboyr? Jbr xva vpu 80 zvahgra (UvFcnpr) va Teraboyr ivaqr? Magic - who may be taking the p***.. -- "Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration." Location : Portsmouth, England, UK Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk (under construction) EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: SB Live! skipping when playing an mp3 and copying to MD
I have a SB Live! full version with both daugther cards and have found your guessing at the problem to be rather interesting. However, let me give you the real problem. The problem is that the sound card is a PCI device and as a result has to share the pci bus with lots of other devices. There is no real fix for the problem. I've found that a network card can cause the problem to occur more often than other cards (some cards can take priority thus causing the live to get delayed data). I was able to solve the skipping problem by moving my Live! over a PCI slot. It doesn't seem to be an issue with IRQ sharing either. It still shares an IRQ with other devices as it did before, but now I can't make it skip no matter how hard I try (that's a good thing). I can't really give you any more suggestions than shuffling your PCI cards around a bit. However if don't use anything else at the same time you should be sucessful with getting winamp to not skip on playback (unless your HD's controller is causing the problem). That's all very well but i don't see how PCI congestion could make the MP3 stutter (repeat bits), I could understand it causing dropouts. It also does this when it does something like loading an app. I just had another idea, it could be hard disk congestion, when playing an MP3 at about 160 Kbps it reads every 2 or 3 seconds, I've noticed that most of the problems occur when the computer reads form or writes to the disk (even if it's just the swap file). (p.s. a p100 has enough power to play back mp3's and run autocad 13 at the same time without skipping. I used to do it all the time) maybe but can it load AutoCAD while it's playing MP3s without skipping? It happens when you start or close apps, it does it to me all the time. Christopher Spalding Genius, generally excellent and gifted person. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
If you can't get a decent MP3 output from your PC, you can't record your MP3s to your MD. That's what it has to do with MD. Peter-following this thread in case his MP3 to MD rig ever fails him. Peter A Barlow. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +33 1 53 78 66 52 - Message d'origine - De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 28 octobre 1999 10.31 Objet : Re: MD: "Hesitating" sound Huh?? What has this to do with MD? Cheers, Ralph - just wondering -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: Bus congenstion
Gaz, If I had any guess, I would say it was your ram. YOu know why? AGP takes up system memory, try reducing that in the bios. 16mb or less of agp memory. Also VIA chipset motherboards are VERY unstable with AGP cards, this can be a BIG problem. I would do a clean load of windows with the drivers and everything. I can definitly say that it is NOT the emulation drivers. Those drivers are ONLY loaded when you run a dos program, such as Doom or dos Quake. As far as loading stuff into UMB, that matters little anymore since the windows VMM drivers and other memory drivers do all of that stuff now. Its not DirectX emultation your doing. Directx is a port for different multimedia drivers. It is a WHOLE driver set, and game creaters just have to write DirectX calls instead of whole driver sets for different sound cards. It makes things 10x easier to program...I know because I do that too. YOu do not need to emulate DirectX, especially since you have a Sound Blaster Live!, that is one of the best sound cards for DirectX. I have dos compat drivers loaded and my system is totally fine, even when I play doom. Those drivers USED to be bad for a computer, now they are totally fine. All it does is make your sound card look like a SB16 through software. And that software takes up VERY little resources. Shawn Shawn M. Pierce Information and User support specialist University of Minnesota, College of Agriculture Departments of Plant Pathology and Agronomy (612)-301-6034 Day phone (612)-730-7617 All hours number mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (all other mail) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: Hesitating sound
I dont understand how you can blame software for an obvious hardware problem. Its like blaming engine stuttering on bad gas. What is bad gas? I personally dont believe there is such a thing. You are taking an apple and saying it causes the orange to smell like an orange. Second of all. NO IDE hard drive takes up only 8% cpu power. Go to www.storagereview.com and check out all of their benchmarks. Another thing. Refresh rates are how many times per second 1 line is redrawn. Starting from the top down, a monitor draws a line, as soon as it gets done, it does it over again. When you look at a video of a monitor, you see bars, that is the refresh rate being slowed by the NTSC standard FPS of only 30. Ok, with your stupid dos machine. Lets run Quake at the same time we are playing MP3's. I bet it will stutter. Or how about copying a 1gb file from hard drive to hard drive, I bet it will skip! I CPU feeds data to a card, not the other way around. If a card takes more information than a CPU can handle, the CPU maxes out and cannot provide any more. However, if a CPU feeds too much data to a card, you do not get a buffer overrun, you just dont get any more data. Lets see. If we try to put 33 cars parrallel on a 32 lane highway, the last car gets pushed off the side. Better yet, the way computers work, is that that data is NOT SENT! Thats why we have AGP. If 32 megs of onboard memory is not enough to handle all of the textures, it uses memory to divert that info. It does not wait for it. Thats why we have buffer memory, it pre-cache information. Its TOTALLY stupid to say that drivers cause 1 bit of overrun. Its STUPID to say that so much windows information is being sent to the video card that the video card buffers are becomming full..what does windows send to a videocard? NOTHING REALLY! Its STUPID to say that windows even maxes out a computer in normal operation. What is simply happening is that there is a software conflict. My guess is that its DirectX. Yes, I have helped design a processor here at the University of Minnesota. I know about piplining, dual execution codes, FPU's, Et Al. I work with millions of dollars of equipment per day. I maintain mainframes, and massive servers. I built around 200-300 computers a year. I know hardware in and out. Shawn - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
I'm going to take a rough shot at it being the graphics card. Unless you're running something less than a P150 you should never have skipping in Winamp. If you have a P150 or above then even the screensaver should cause much of a problem - you only need a P166 to use some screensaver plug-ins for WinAmp that synchronise display with the MP3, so just playing back without anything else running should be a breeze! The reason I say the graphics card is simple. In order to squeeze as much performance as possible from these cards they send just slightly more data to the card than it can take to try and push it. This results in the command being left in the data lines until the card is ready for it, meaning no other card can use those data lines until the graphics card is ready. Ordinarily this isn't too much of a problem - the chances of you noticing the printer pausing for a microsecond, or maybe the mouse locking for a very brief instant, or even the hard disc taking just that millisecond longer to read a file go pretty much unnoticed. With the sound card though it is clearly audible when this happens. If you have a WinModem it will be effected too - many people blame their ISP when they get disconnected, but actually it's the graphics card breaking communication. The solution is to nag the b** off your graphics card manufacturer until you get some drivers that *don't* lock up the bus - either that or switch graphics cards. Nope, you're definitely wrong there Magic. I have a PIII 500, 128 megs of RAM, and my graphics card is on the AGP bus, not PCI and when I start an application or even when the computer just puts the monitor in power save mode, Winamp frequently does what seems to be playing the same fraction of a second of music over and over again (if MP3s work on quantisation as well then it could easily be one quantised section) or it skips bits. I assume this is the same problem as with which the question originally started. OK, i just did it then by starting the biggest program i have (3DS Max, but i stopped it before the graphics were initialised) and according to the system monitor, the only thing that was at 100% was processor useage, but allocated memory came close. It's not that hard to use 100% of any processor in my experience - that's why you have to wait for things to load. I would theorise that winamp probably, for some reason, during playing would decide that it needs more processing power, but some other program is using it all, and there isn't any more. Christopher Spalding Genius, generally excellent and gifted person. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: is that Paris, Texas ?
Hmmm, impressive. I'm not even sure what some of those languages are. But I can tell you that there's a mistake in the french one. And you're living in france, oh dear, oh dear. Enough already, before anyone flames me, I flame myself, let's get back to MDs. (but you know there are quite a few people on this list living in France and Paris (not all Frenchies either) who would like answers to these (local) q's from time to time). Peter A Barlow. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +33 1 53 78 66 52 - Message d'origine - De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 28 octobre 1999 11.45 Objet : Re: MD: 80 Min MD's Live from Manufacturer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FrEnCh RuLeZ ! ;-) Seriously, can anyone be interested in finding a place in Paris where one can find 80min MDs apart for Frenchies who live in Paris ? I don't think so, and don't worry... we ARE sorry for writing in french, but as it was quite useless information for 99,99% of ya, we did not really care. Ok, now pls drop this heavy thing you were about to throw at my head and smile :-) see ? I wish all of ya have a nice day. Yann Hmm, and now it's my turn ;-) Where can I find 80 minutes (preferable HiSpace) in Grenoble? Wo kan Ich 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble finden? Waar kan ik 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble vinden? Ou je trouve des 80 minute (HiSpace prefere) on Grenoble? Ka chi ta u 80 imute (HiSpace) ki Grenoble? Woe kin ich 80 minuten (HiSpace) in Grenoble vinde? Cheers, Ralph - showing off -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. 30% (WinAmp) + 40% (hard drive under stress - an MP3 at 5Mbytes/sec?!?!?) = 70% That leaves 30% free to run the sound card and graphics card - more than ample. So why stutter unless. wait for it the graphics card drivers are crap! Could be In Half Life, I had stuttering noises, this was cured by A. Lowering resolution, why? Not because too much data was going to the video card and it had to wait to fill buffers, but because too much info was going to the CPU! That was on my P200, now with my P2-450, I can run the same res, with the same vid card, same drivers, same OS...and NO STUTTERING!!! That is slightly different because Half-Life is a very processor intensive program. An MP3 can be decoded by a 486 in DOS - I don't think the same could be said of running Half-Life. I have also seen Half-Life, Quake 2 and Carmageddon stutter on a P2-450 because the graphics card was at fault - replacing the drivers fixed it and all games now run very smoothly. Hmmm... Have you ever looked at the bus scematic for BX chipsets? PCI bus is on a different bus, the AGP is pretty much on the PCI bus. ISA is on a different one. Have you ever looked at benchmarks across CPU's? Rigth.. Have you ever designed a CPU? Sorry, perhaps that was unfair. Ok, it was only Z80 equivelent, but it worked! (Pity I never got to build it on anything other than software). Yes! Actually my job is to verify CPU's. The PCI bus does more than you think! And an on-chip CPU bus is even more complex. Most modern CPU's can server several busses at the same time. (There was even a Z80 that had a seperate IO and memory bus!!!) If card A sends a time-critical request to the CPU, but the CPU can't do anything because it is waiting for card B to say "finished" and release the interrupt disable flag, what happens? Card A will miss out on data. It's really a simple concept, I don't see why you're having such trouble with it. Nope. Card A won't miss the data, but will be stalled! Does the graphics card scale to the cpu? Or does the CPU scale to the graphics card? That depends on whether the drivers tell the CPU to ignore interrupts from other parts of the system, effectively locking up the CPU. A *good* driver will ont do this. Right. Let me ask you this. If you have a P150 and a GeForce256, will the computer lock up? That depends what you are doing. HOW CAN IT!?! Quite easily if you decide to run somelike like Alien vs Predator on it! ***The CPU has to send so much data to the graphics card, that it has no time to get data to the sound card, hence the stuttering*. In Windows at 640x480 resolution? Hmmm. the 480 doesn't seem to bothered about this with a Trident ISA card. I guess the GeForce256 must be crap then. On the other hand, it might be that the damn thing just needs replacement drivers.. To much data will result in a something going wrong. The GeForce256 can handle more data than the CPU can deliver. (Between lines, the Riva 128 couldn't be saturated by a Pentium II @ 233Mhz.) Cheers, Ralph - Read my signature! -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
So your telling me that a video card with 2 megs of ram or whatever is getting 2 megs of data per clock cycle, or maybe around 90 times a second by using windows? No, I'm telling you that the amount of data being sent to the card by the driver is slightly too much for the input buffer on the card. If a card has 2Mb of RAM it doesn't automatically follow that all of this is the input buffer. The monitor can hold up the card, but it is not fair to blame the monitor because it is the drivers which are at fault. There is no other logical explanation, especially when this stuttering can be observed on a P3 600MHz system. You can't seriously sit there and tell me that a system with that much CPU power is struggling to decode the MP3! My hard drive occupies 8% of CPU power, and the CD-ROM occupies 18% (44x system - IDE) but as I am now plwying the file out of a RAM drive anyway, that's now irrelebant. No ISA cards BTW - I just pulled them out. The monitor does not accept frames, they accept lines. IE refresh rates are how many times the monitor redraws a line per second, starting from top down. LOL If your monitor with a refresh rate of 80Hz (check the monitor manual, it may be less) has as many lines down as mine does, it will only have drawn the top portion in one second! The refresh rate (try looking under VSync!) is the speed at which all the lines can be rendered, and the flyback system reset ready to start another frame. 80 lines per second indeed! MP3 decoding can take up MASSIVE ammounts of CPU power, older versions of winamp took up more than 30%. Newer versions around around 12-15%. Hmmm. 30% (WinAmp) + 40% (hard drive under stress - an MP3 at 5Mbytes/sec?!?!?) = 70% That leaves 30% free to run the sound card and graphics card - more than ample. So why stutter unless. wait for it the graphics card drivers are crap! In Half Life, I had stuttering noises, this was cured by A. Lowering resolution, why? Not because too much data was going to the video card and it had to wait to fill buffers, but because too much info was going to the CPU! That was on my P200, now with my P2-450, I can run the same res, with the same vid card, same drivers, same OS...and NO STUTTERING!!! That is slightly different because Half-Life is a very processor intensive program. An MP3 can be decoded by a 486 in DOS - I don't think the same could be said of running Half-Life. I have also seen Half-Life, Quake 2 and Carmageddon stutter on a P2-450 because the graphics card was at fault - replacing the drivers fixed it and all games now run very smoothly. Have you ever looked at the bus scematic for BX chipsets? PCI bus is on a different bus, the AGP is pretty much on the PCI bus. ISA is on a different one. Have you ever looked at benchmarks across CPU's? Have you ever designed a CPU? Sorry, perhaps that was unfair. Ok, it was only Z80 equivelent, but it worked! (Pity I never got to build it on anything other than software). If card A sends a time-critical request to the CPU, but the CPU can't do anything because it is waiting for card B to say "finished" and release the interrupt disable flag, what happens? Card A will miss out on data. It's really a simple concept, I don't see why you're having such trouble with it. Does the graphics card scale to the cpu? Or does the CPU scale to the graphics card? That depends on whether the drivers tell the CPU to ignore interrupts from other parts of the system, effectively locking up the CPU. A *good* driver will ont do this. Let me ask you this. If you have a P150 and a GeForce256, will the computer lock up? That depends what you are doing. HOW CAN IT!?! Quite easily if you decide to run somelike like Alien vs Predator on it! ***The CPU has to send so much data to the graphics card, that it has no time to get data to the sound card, hence the stuttering*. In Windows at 640x480 resolution? Hmmm. the 480 doesn't seem to bothered about this with a Trident ISA card. I guess the GeForce256 must be crap then. On the other hand, it might be that the damn thing just needs replacement drivers.. If you look at benchmarks, Framerates scale to the power of the CPU up to a point. That point is the polygon or triangle output of a video card, a CPU finally is powerfull enough to send enough data to overwhelm a video card...BUT it does not start stuttering it only tops out at frame rates. I would say the GEForce256 will top out with a K7-800 or so. Which is completely irrelevant because we're talking about playing MP3s in Windows, not watching 3D graphical representations of audio renderes using as many mip-mapped texels as you can fit into 32Mb! Why can a 386 run Unix as a server? I have one running a small file server :). Because it is not runing a GUI AND it is not running any background stuff. Yeah. No GUI - no drivers needed. Eliminates the whole problem! Why can ur dos machine decode
MD: SDMI killer
I read in one of the computer mags about an exe file that killed SDMI protection. Its name was something like unscrew.exe or unscrewed.exe. Now I can't find the article as I don't remember what mag it was in. How does this matter to MD? Well, when you want to copy something you want to copy it... Nuff said. Appreciate any help. GDub - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Hesitating sound
From: Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 1:22 PM Subject: Re: MD: "Hesitating" sound [snip] Taken to private EMail - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD in Hong Kong.
This question may have been asked before. Where will I find reputable MD dealers in Hong Kong? ... I'm going to be there for 1 week in mid-February 2000. Please reply privately with either addresses to visit or URL's to check out. Many Thanx in Advance. CheersGC - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: PCLK-PX1
I want to order the Sony media center kit PCLK-PX1. Does anybody know where to order it? I called 1-800-222-Sony. They direct me to another dept who sell this kit as $190. It takes 6 weeks for them to delivery which I think it's very unreasonable. anybody has any experience ordering that Thanks Taky Cheung Creative Services Digital Consulting and Software Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spider.net.hk/~taky - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
