On 2003-12-02 17:21:16 +0000 Edenyard mail@edenyard.co.uk wrote:
I assumed that proper DVD decoding (whatever that might be) needed more power than a CPU could give and so some sort of purpose-made hardware did the decoding.
I'm sure that I've seen machines without special video hardware doing DVD decoding, but presumably these things can help somehow. I think the full-screen playback is controlled by some X extensions, so you'll need something with a driver that supports them (Is that RENDER or DRI?). Maybe someone with more experience of DVDs can wade in here: anyone built a custom DVD player?
Clearly, though, there have been (infinitely) more answers since I made my comment than before (ratio = 6:0) so I'm not sure that the sentence you quoted above explains why I didn't get a response before.
Me neither, but chances are at least some were as confused as me about the DVD bit. Probably we're a little too cautious about giving incomplete answers.