Re: [linuxdc-dev] RedBoot CD booting and MPEG playback

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i would highly doubt that the DC has the power to play MPEG2 video back, let alone with audio. the framebuffer might be adequate for movie playback, but i'm not sure. best thing to do would be to write a good/better DRI driver and use hardware acceleration to the best of the DC's abilities (or as close as we can get ;)

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:05:16 +0000
Gavin Hamill <gd...@ac...> wrote:

> Hullo :)
> 
> I bought a DC + BBA a year ago to tinker with Linux / NFS stuff, but at the time there was no audio support in 
> the Linux kernel for the DC's onboard sound hardware, and real life got in the way, so I lost interest...
> 
> Now I see sound has been added and I have a bit of free time to produce a DC-based 'Media Station'...
> 
> Certainly mp3 and MPEG-1 movie playback is possible from what I've read on the mailing list, but is there 
> sufficient grunt in the DC to play MPEG2 at broadcast quality (702x576 at about 6Mbps) with mp2-sound under X, 
> or if not X, is the framebuffer device adequate for mplayer usage?
> 
> Cheers!
> Gavin.
> 
> 
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