Subject: Re: DVD player... (part 3)
To: Mario Kemper <magick@bundy.lip.owl.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/31/1999 08:33:12
magick@bundy.lip.owl.de (Mario Kemper) writes:
> In article <199910310322.XAA07554@eniwetok.ihack.net>,
> "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net> writes:
> >
> > I brought in more DVDs today, and I can play all of A Bug's Life,
> > Alien and Evita. Eventually I'll get around to trying the others.
> > B-)
> >
> Ist this a software player or does it need spevial hardware? If software,
> what CPU-power is needed?
It more or less works on a PII-450. I suspect an equivalent Alpha or
PowerPC (maybe even a little slower, since they have lightyears better
floating point) would also work.
However, there are some syncing problems with audio because I'm using
a non-preemptive thread library at the moment. (Don't worry; it
doesn't sync correctly under Linux, either.)
> Any chance to see your patches as a package RSN? :-)
Well, I posted a notice about where to find them. I'll make a pkg
when it stabilizes a little more.