Digital Wokan wrote: > > Hopefully they can do something to let me use the hardware decoder > then. I've got the ReelMagic Hollywood+ which the company keeps > (irately) stating will _never_ have Linux support (as we all know, that > just means from them). I've seen what software decoding looks like, > even on 600+ MHz systems and I'm not impressed, especially for > full-screen playback. (That's a lot of work for a standard CPU when you > add decoding on top of everything else.) If you've got a spare free several gigs, theres no reason you couldnt decode it first, right? Better still, choose a display size and framerate that will use around, say, 70% of your CPU power, and then run the decoder in the background, reniced to 10. tail the output file to your mpeg player. -- jkenner @ mindspring . com__ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |