Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:14:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] video
--- Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:06:06 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] video > > > --- David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As for the L110, DVDs are too slow over cardbus > -- <10fps. > > I still haven't heard from anyone who may have a USB > 2.0 DVD player. Maybe > no one on the list has one. But I recently got one > of those USB 2.0 > networking cables, and now I get >4 times< the data > transfer speed for > copying MP3s from the desktop over the standard > ethernet connection. I have a usb 2.0 card with a usb 2.0 dvd burner. it is what i am commenting on. It has a 2MB cache to play movies and really should be fast enough. I calculated it out. I am trying to play movies in a 640x480 window and it takes around a 220k stream to do this. It should be playing fine since I have enough of a cache on the dvd along with plenty of video ram for the colors. I also have over 20MB of free ram for the decoder and movie cache to bypass the hard drive. the only thing I can figure, as long as the decoder is properly written, is it must be a problem with the video driver -- maybe my refresh rates aren't right but then who *knows* what those are supposed to be? You gotta remember the bloat on the dvd is the encrpytinatiion so the real movie is only about a 1.5 gig or less. so a 90 minute movie is only a couple megs a second of data which the libby can easily handle--especially a 110 or 100 with the pci buss. john > > I'd think one might actually get a USB 2.0 DVD > player to play DVDs fine, > since the USB 2.0 PC card, as Raymond pointed out > some time back, has its > own controller chip that speeds up the transfer rate > over what the > limitations of the Libby's motherboard can achieve. > > Or is 4x what the libby can do now still too slow? > > Matt > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
