[geeks] DVD playback on Solaris

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:16:32AM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> I would imagine that mplayer would work as well.  And now that I think
> about it, both use ffmpeg, and doesn't ffmpeg offer VIS acceleration?  

I've not done any video-watching on Solaris in years, so I couldnt tell you.

> However, VIS acceleration doesn't imply using the video card for
> acceleration, does it? Or does ShowMeTV also do additional acceleration
> using the video card in addition to VIS?

AFAIK, ShowMeTV uses the VIS libraries to speed up multimedia operations.

I may be wrong.

Bill

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