[geeks] DVD playback on Solaris

[Olaf Mersmann]

* Charles Redmond <charlie250y at yahoo.com.au> [040322 02:46]:
> Ok, so I'm now going to try to tackle my last reason
> for having a pc....
> I've got a nice U60 with an Elite 3D/Sol 8 and I have
> just won a SCSI dvd 
> on ebay.
> Does anyone have any experience on whether the Elite
> 3D will be good enough for DVD playback?

Nope, but I have an U60 with a C3D and it plays back MPEG2 Streams like a
charm (although they are not coming from a DVD but are disk recordings from
a DVB-S (Digital Satelite TV) card). It does put a strain on both CPUs (300
MHz UltraSPARC II) though. I would guess that it is more a CPU issue since
the GFX cards don't provide any motion compensation support etc. unlike most
PeeCee cards these days do.

HTH
Olaf