[geeks] mpeg hardware

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:53:55AM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > > > > Anybody know of any good capture+compression PCI cards?  I would use
> > > > > an All In Wonder but the newer ones aren't PCI and I don't think the
> > > > > older ones supported hardware compression.  Looking for MPEG2
> > > > > preferably, MPEG1 is acceptable.
> > > >
> > > I have a creative labs Dxr2 board that can be yours for $25.00
> >
> > Those are fairly nice boards (kinda picky about mpeg2 format, but...), but
> > they are playback only.
> 
> I used to have a DXR2.  I like the DXR3 so much better.

My understanding was that the DXR3 moved css to software, making it much
harder to use for movies under other OSs historically.  Even still, th
DXR2 seems to be better supported under linux.  But, mines in a box unused.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd