Re: Software DVDdecoding

2004-08-08 Thread Mikael Byström
Alejandro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Do you have an ATI Card or a NVIDIA one? I'm pretty sure all machines of the PB G4 / 400 have a an ATI Rage Mobility 128 (AGP 2X) with 8 MB of SDRAM. >I undersand that ATI uses another channel for the >Video. Did you mean for the movie stream? Or did you actual

Re: Software DVDdecoding

2004-08-07 Thread Alejandro
Do you have an ATI Card or a NVIDIA one? I undersand that ATI uses another channel for the Video. That's why you can't take a snapshot picture of a movie. If you remove the DVD the picture will became a grey or brown box. VLC uses the normal video. Only ATI Cards have this problem. --- Mikael By

Software DVDdecoding

2004-08-07 Thread Mikael Byström
Laurent, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >all newer machines use software decoding. OK, so here's my questions, hoping for some direction : What kind of decoding available is there, that is what formats can be decoded in software in the OS? Where is the decoding software in the OS and what triggers it,