Okay, again but in English... Start from the part where I put in my DVD and press the play button on the software... Jason wrote: > > 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. |