[Gllug] Hardware v. Software CODECS?

[stanley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Turner
> Sent: 17 March 2004 14:31
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Hardware v. Software CODECS?
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 2:16 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
> >    The DXR3 appears to be a PCI card with a small round VGA input, 
> > standard 15 pin VGA output, audio line out, plus TV out. 
> The current 
> > box output is a 4MB AGP card plus PCI sound. Should I use the DXR3 
> > output to drive a separate monitor or loop the AGP output 
> through the 
> > DXR3? I suspect that either might suit the intended user.
> 
> 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!)
> 
> 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)
> 
> Richard.
> -- 
> "Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."
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Having just last night taken one of these out what Richard has said is
correct. The DXR3 is a creative DVD decoder card, it is designed so that you
loop from the graphics card into it, the line out is only if you are
connecting the tv out to s-video and it needs a sound signal IIRC.

Rhys 

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