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Re: DVD for Linux



Maybe I didn't explain myself well...

>From what I heard, VMWare 2.0 will (not sure) let you ACCESS to a PCI
cards you got inside the box..

Just like they use DGA extensions - which is actully a direct access to
the graphics card..

PowerDVD is not running under vmware due to the fact that it needs
DirectX 5 at least, and VMWare doesn't support that..

Hetz

Isaac Aaron wrote:
> 
> Ariel Biener wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> >
> > Ok. Has anyone ever managed to make VMware detect the decoder card, and
> > use it for playing ?  Since it uses the decoder, and not the host CPU, it
> > should run ok I assume.
> >
> > --Ariel
> 
> Very unlikely.
> VMWare provides a virtual machine which has no direct connection to the real
> machine. It provides emulation. It emulates only what it supports.
> In other words, in order to support an MPEG-2 decoder, vmware would have to
> have access to it first.
> There is, however, a software decoder for Windows called PowerDVD. This
> decoder need no hardware MPEG-2 card. However, it requires great proccessing
> time -- 300MHz at least. VMWare's virtual machine reduces the guest OS's
> computing power, therefore, it will take a very fast host computer to do
> that, assuming that video frame buffers work well in VMWare.
> 
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