Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:36:32 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] VCD and L100
>Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:02:15 EDT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I played a new, commercially recorded VCD in my Sony PRD-650 CDROM >connected to my L100 tonight, for the first time. Used W98 Media Player. >Everything went well, except for a little jerkiness, for about the first 10 >minutes, then the image started breaking up, then finally all came to a >halt. Media Player had frozen up. Ctrl-alt-del let me shut down Media >Player and get the desktop. A repeat attempt >gave the identical result. > >Do I just need a Margi MPEG-to-go card, or is it something more serious? >Has anyone played with this on a Lib? It was pretty cool for 10 minutes, >I'd like to be able to do it again. I think everyone is either working, out enjoying themselves, or sleeping Lee. Does your L100 really have the power to play VCDs, not knowing the requirements for VCDs, and what version of Media Player your using. Multimedia these days seems to demand a lot of power. I remember I was able to play sound/video MPEG files on my 50CT with 32mb RAM, but the frame rate was slow, so there was a little jerkyness. If I recall, things slowed down if I went full screen instead of maybe a 1/4 screen size. But that was ages ago. It'd be interesting to hear what kind of experiences people with L100s and L110s have had. There's an interesting thread in the archives on DVD on an EXP/Margi drive that didn't work on a L110. Here's the quote and link: -------------------------- http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/1999/msg02557.html Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:37:32 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Lanciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: DVD for 110CT Has anyone found a DVD for the 110CT that actually allows you to play movies? (Not that it's so critical to play movies, but the concept is neat and if you are going to have a DVD... :) I've tried EXP's Traveler+ which is a drive+Margi MPEG card, but, even though the 100 series is listed as compatible by EXP, it doesn't work. (EXP calls it a "performance problem" which means that it works but doesn't play the movie in real time. :( Slow video wouldn't be so bad, but slow, motorboated audio is really hard on the ear.) Unfortunately, although Margi also lists the Libretto as supported, the will not tell me which drive they tested with--only that they don't recommend "PCMCIA drives" like EXP's but rather internal DVD drives. The fact that video copied to the hard disk is even worse makes we wonder about the Margi card itself... -------------------------- Matt _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
