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Subject: Re: bt848 hangups on 486's 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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You are probably losing a "lot" of frames because your PCI chipset can't
keep up with the video stream or your video card.

	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Bernie Doehner :
> > Run dtv and see if it hangs your system.
> > 
> > 	Amancio
> 
> No it doesn't. However, it also pushes the load average up to slightly
> above 1.  
> 
> Also, under dtv, the picture is very dark, I get no audio, and I am losing
> a lot of frames.
> 
> This is with 15 bpp (which is the only depth I can do that matches dtv).
> 
> Bernie
>