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Re: Audio & DVD cards' competibility under Linux
- To: Erez Boym <ehboym(at-nospam)yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: Audio & DVD cards' competibility under Linux
- From: Ely Levy <elylevy(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 23:59:32 +0200 (IST)
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actually I would recommand ATI which has great DVD support much better
than must other companies
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Erez Boym wrote:
| Hi,
|
| So .. if you had to chose a decoder you'll chose the
| Matrox G400 instead of the Creative DXr3 ?
|
| By the way I only foundLinux compatibility in Matrox
| G450 (Millennium Matrox G450 chip set, 32 MB DDRam).
|
| Why do I need such a strong computer. My DVD player is
| going to be dedicated to playing DVDs and MP3s and as
| for now I planed on an AMD K6-II 500 with a lot of RAM
| (256 Mb). If I'm planning on the Matrox G450, am I
| going to have a problem ?
|
| Isn't the whole idea of a strong video card to get the
| load off the processor ?
|
| As for playing AC-3 sound, if I understand what you
| wrote, there is no support for any such card under
| Linux yet. Is there any card which will give me a
| dissent sound and that has a AC-3 sound in it's future
| ?
|
| Would you select the SB Live 5.1 as your sound card ?
|
|
| Thanks
|
| Erez Boym
|
|
| --- Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home@cobol2java.com> wrote:
| > Hi.
| >
| > Lets see...
| >
| > So I'll appreciate your advice on several subjects :
| > >1) I've decided on Creative's PC-DVD Package which
| > has
| > >a DVD drive and a Decoder bundled in one box.
| >
| > Well, what you are saying is not clear. WHICH
| > Creative pack? DXR2? DXR3? newer?
| >
| > For the DXR2 there is support, but the quality of
| > DVD display on monitor is
| > very bad quality. If you have a TV near your PC at
| > home, then I suggest to
| > connect it to watch TV.
| >
| > The card itself is supported under Linux - see
| > http://opensource.creative.com
| >
| > If you got a DXR3 or newer (DXR5 and DXR6 I think),
| > then you can test the
| > preliminary driver at:
| > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3/
| >
| > Regarding 6 channel sound (it's called AC3 or 5.1
| > cause it's not a really 6
| > channels) - I don't know what to tell you. The group
| > who are writing the
| > Sound Blaster Live driver are working now on the
| > EMU10K programming so the
| > AC3 sound might take some time to come to Linux..
| >
| > As for software DVD playback - the Livid group is
| > working on it - you'll
| > have to wait few moremonths until they'll release a
| > beta. Right now you
| > can fiddle with it - if you know Linux well - on
| > http://www.linuxvideo.org
| >
| > On the other hand, if you have Matrox G200 or G400
| > and you're running XFree
| > 4.0.1 and a really fast processor - something like
| > 700+ AMD or Intel - then
| > head over to http://xine.sourceforge.net and try the
| > Xine player - if
| > you're going to watch DVD's - grab yourself aDeCSS
| > program also (to
| > unlock the DVD before you watch it)
| >
| > Conslusion: for now (just for now) Linux is not
| > ready for the average users
| > to play DVD's unless you're very good with Linux and
| > know how to
| > modify/tweak many parts...
| >
| > So, for now - use Windows for this.
| >
| >
| > Hetz Ben Hamo
| > Hardware Research
| > Aduva Inc.
| >
| >
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