Re: Lombard DVD decoder software

Joshua King wrote:

>I've used Mplayer/Ogle and to a lesser extent Xine for playing DVDs on a
>333Mhz iMac w/o hardware decoding and it works okay (it's not perfect and
>can stutter a little) so you should be okay with software decoding.
>
>I had to install Panther on the machine so now I'm using VLC for DVD
>playback, but I can't comment on its speed in Gentoo. VLC plays perfectly
>In Mac OS X, you probably won't get the Apple DVD Player to run though (I
>don't know what graphics you have in the Lombard...)
>  
>
The Lombards have an ATI video system with 8 MB of VRAM.  It's not 
supported by OS X's Quartz Extreme graphics subsystem (neither is the 
hardware DVD decoder, anyway, so I read) and it's non-upgradable, as is 
the case with most laptops.

--
Colin


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