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DATE | 2006-12-18 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] DVD quality video is now card dependent?
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From owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Dec 18 14:37:23 2006 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kBIJbLMf007195 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:23 -0500 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id kBIJbKLA007194 for hangout-outgoings; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:20 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to owner-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kBIJbIBD007191 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:20 -0500 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id kBIJbI6n007190 for hangout-at-nylxs.com; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:37:18 -0500 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] DVD quality video is now card dependent? Message-ID: <20061218193718.GA7174-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 25656 Status: RO Content-Length: 1623 Lines: 48
I was going to installt his program for video to watch stuff on the learner.org annenberg network. It seems the docs say this now
"Before you start... Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html to see which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with XFree86 to drive their 2-D video acceleration features like YUV and scaling.
Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs."
How can that be? Every distro would have to compile the source fresh for every video card.
Ruben
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You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attacted at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt.
I guess you missed that one."
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