[geeks] DVD playback on Solaris

[Olaf Mersmann]

* Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> [040322 16:32]:
> 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?

VIS is a vector processing unit thingy built into the USII and later
processors. It's Suns awnser to MMX (or was it before MMX?). At any rate,
it's not linked in any way to the video card you have and can be used for
all kinds of numeric processing, not just video decoding.

- Olaf