Re: [xine-user] Re: Sound problems and xine 0.5.1

[Rick H. <ri...@ku...>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:44:25PM +0100, James wrote:
> 
> Today, Carlos Costa Portela Wrote:
> 
> # 	Well, not all ok :'-(. mpeg (dxr3 and XShm) ok. I can not see divX
> # movies via dxr3; and I can see dxr3 movies via XShm
> 
> And you never will be able to see DivXs on your DXR3. The DXR3 does all
> the DVD/Mpeg decoding itself, but if you send it a DivX it doesn't know
> what to do with it (sort of like trying to play an Ogg file with a
> commercial MP3 player).

There is a program for windows (divxplus) that decodes divx and mov's in
software and somehow displays them using the h+.  My theory is that it
wraps or minimally encodes the frames into an mpeg stream and sends that
to the card, but I'm not familiar enough with the format to say for
sure.  I've also been unable to contact the author.

> As someone said before, if it was possible to write different firmware
> for the DXR3 you could probably make it decode DivX. But since finding out
> about how the DXR3 works is about as easy as asking Microsoft for sourcecode,
> it probably won't happen :-/
> 
> Is the stuff in the DXR3 microcode the actual Mpeg decoding software?

No idea.

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