[Gllug] Hardware v. Software CODECS?

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Richard Turner wrote:

> I think I have one of these somewhere - it came with a DVD drive when CPUs and 
> graphics card processors in the main weren't up to the job of decoding DVD 
> video.  IIRC you have to route the AGP output into the DXR3 to make things 
> work properly.  I suspect this is at least in part something to do with DVD 
> copy protection (as if anyone would bother ripping a DVD movie onto VHS these 
> days!)

Nope, you can go straight to TV-out.  The VGA loop thing is just so
you can output to a computer monitor -- it switches off the VGA and
switches in its output.  Much like the early Voodoo cards used to.

> IIRC the DXR3 won't replace the soundcard - I didn't ever use its sound 
> facilities but I think it's just for decoding the sound encoded on the DVD 
> and won't be any good for anything else.  It was a while back though, so I 
> could be wrong :o)

There was talk about getting the sound thing to work, but I haven't
followed it.  dxr3.sf.net for answers.

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