RE: [9fans] dvd decoding/playing

RE: [9fans] dvd decoding/playing

[Tiit Lankots]

dvd decoding: you'll want a reasonable-performance SIMD, probably SSE (but SSE2 is noticeably better).
a 1GHz Celeron/Duron seems to be the lower limit of comfort.
games: if we're talking about recent ones, there's never a hammer big enough. just use what you have.

Tiit

[9fans] adding a new user

[David Caplan]

Hello,

  I'm quite new to plan9, and I've just installed it on a laptop. Could
  somebody tell me how to add new users? or maybe point me to a man page?

  Also, has anybody installed p9 on a laptop with the Ati Rage Lt Pro
  video card? If so, which video driver are you using?

  Thanks,
    - David

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[9fans] dvd decoding/playing

[Charles Forsyth]

does anyone know how powerful an x86 i'd need to do
dvd decoding and playing with a good bit of spare capacity?
i was hoping to use (perhaps) EPIA 800 but i wondered if anyone actually
knew, before i went ahead and bought one.  actually, i was hoping
to use a non-x86 but i get the impression that might be more
expensive and less practical.

i tried a google search but i didn't find the right words.

Re: [9fans] dvd decoding/playing

[Philippe Anel]

At 11:17 27/02/04, you wrote:
>does anyone know how powerful an x86 i'd need to do
>dvd decoding and playing with a good bit of spare capacity?
>i was hoping to use (perhaps) EPIA 800 but i wondered if anyone actually
>knew, before i went ahead and bought one.  actually, i was hoping
>to use a non-x86 but i get the impression that might be more
>expensive and less practical.
>
>i tried a google search but i didn't find the right words.

I can play a DVD under FreeBSD with my P3-450MHz. So I thing it would work
with the EPIA 800 proc too. However, it seems the EPIA 800 has very slow
floating point unit.
If you want to play the DVD with Plan9, I also suggest you to implement
the overlay part of your video driver.

         Philippe,

http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
http://liba52.sourceforge.net/

Re: [9fans] dvd decoding/playing

[andrey mirtchovski]

I've done it with a celeron 900 (T23) running FreeBSD (and Windows before
that). With FBSD the only requirement was to have the CDROM drive in DMA
mode instead of the PIO it was defaulted to (choppy otherwise).

andrey

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> does anyone know how powerful an x86 i'd need to do
> dvd decoding and playing with a good bit of spare capacity?
> i was hoping to use (perhaps) EPIA 800 but i wondered if anyone actually
> knew, before i went ahead and bought one.  actually, i was hoping
> to use a non-x86 but i get the impression that might be more
> expensive and less practical.
>
> i tried a google search but i didn't find the right words.
>