[mpeg2] Re: tv out [off topic]

[Christian Wolff <scarabaeus@convergence.de>]

Titus von Boxberg wrote:
> Lewe Zipfel wrote:
> > > Sigmadesigns NetStream2000 is a hardware mpeg decoder card
> > > with superb picture quality.
> > > The current driver supports composite, s-video yuv and rgb
> > > output, and is pretty stable.
> no. it is not, depending what is pretty in your eyes and what you want to
> do. I'm currently checking out file playback and it seems to me
> that it's quite unstable.

The newest driver works fine for me. The playfile app only plays
back as NTSC, though, wich is why PAL film look a bit choppy.
It even works great to let playfile read directly from /dev/video
on a 150 MHz machine.

> > You want me to pay 2000US$ just for tv-out? I mean my pc is able to
> لل, you could estimate the price maybe an order of magnitude lower?

for example:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=214189   $226.64

Did you confuse that with the professional Stradis MPEG card?

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