Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:42:30 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] VCD and L100
Hi Anke, > Hi Lee, > > Sorry, I seemed to have missed your original mail.. It seems that some posts are getting dropped - I've missed parts of some threads lately... > > >Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:43:12 EDT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [LIB] VCD and L100 > >> sounds like you need a docking station for that thing for a > second pccard > > >Wouldn't that be lovely? As it is I have a port replicator > with just the basic ports plus iLink and USB (it's a Sony Vaio > Z505R). So, with the CDROM drive AND the Margi card both > needing PCMCIA, I'm > > ..now if you had an Audio VCD player with iLink you would be OK > ;-)) > > >SOL. Unless there's an iLink-to-PCMCIA adapter...but I've > never seen anything like that. > > Don't think they exist, though some CDRW Drives can be > connected using firewire (iLink). e.g. from Archos or Freecom. > You _can_ get PCMCIA-to-firewire cards, but guess that won't > help yu much. I wonder, will *any* CDROM drive play VCDs, or only some? If it's the former, I suppose I could pony up for yet another portable CDROM with either iLink or USB, that would free up the one PCMCIA slot for the MPEG card. And then the question of whether USB is fast enough for MPEG-1, even with a MARGI (or equivalent) card in place? > > I have managed to copy a DVD to my Portege 3440 harddisk, and > use PowerDVD to play it, but the playback hangs after a few > minutes - guess I also need to check my graphics resolution.. Lawrence helped me out with a freezing display, with the suggestion to go from 24-bit to 16-bit - worked beautifully. Lee ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
