Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:59:51 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com> Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, multimedia@freebsd.org, don@partsnow.com Subject: Re: RTP tools (was: Re: Remote and Voice control) Message-ID: <199712150859.AAA00631@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:46:28 PST." <3494EE64.61EA8711@mpegtv.com>
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> Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > XIE is supposed to provide a general image plus conversion facility as > > to if I can get different vendors to accelerate XIE is a different > > story. > > What's XIE ? Is that like XIL ? X Imaging extensions. > By the way, another point: Microsoft is already working on an API > that takes interlaced into consideration. They do that because > it becomes possible to implement MPEG-2 (DVD) in software, using > MMX and some hardware acceleration. You probably need a PII 300Mhz to do that and then your PC can only do that . In six months it should be more viable with the next round of hardware upgrade from Intel : 400Mhz CPUs, 100Mhz bus, faster ram, AGP port. BTW: I am MSDN (Microsoft Developer's Network) subscriber and have hacked together a high speed bt848 driver for Win85 because at the time win95 didn't support multiple video capture boards something trivial for FreeBSD. > Unix has accumulated a considerable retard with regard to > multimedia APIs, and I don't see how it can recover from that, > really... With Linux, FreeBSD, OSS and XFree86 it can recover. The issue with the traditional workstation is cost both of software and hardware which we can drive down with PC platforms. > I still love Linux, but like everyone else, I'll be moving > to the MS platform to make $$$$. > We are not hacking on FreeBSD for $$$. Cheers, Amancio
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