[Nottingham] Installfest Proposal

Philip Scott nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Apr 12 20:34:01 2003


> Today, I squeezed the QuickTime 6 dlls into my machine and managed to get
> xine playing back quicktime movies using libw32codec, which in conjuction
> with a 272x160 text console and aaxine spat out the "Matrix: Reloaded"
> trailer at a superb framerate. Of course, it lacked the
> hardware-accelerated scaling extension, but I'm sure you'll agree it played
> reasonably fast without using actual graphics as such.
>
> Screenshots available if I can be bothered and anyone asks <g>

That's amazing! I had given up on neo ever gracing my xine window :) (except 
just before the film comes out and a complete divx appears as if from nowhere 
in my movies directory..)