Re: [SLUG] Realmagic Hollywood Plus DVD and Linux

[Andrew Macks <andypoo@nospam.secret.com.au>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, George Vieira wrote:

> There alot coming out for Linux and DVD but has anybody seen any drivers for
> the Realmagic Hollywood Plus DVD hardware card for Linux? Or any sites that
> may have some hardware drivers for Linux? I've looked around a bit but no
> go..

You haven't looked at all then :)

Search for Hollywood on Freshmeat, matches 1, the drivers.

http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=Hollywood

> I haven't seen the performance of DVD on Linux but if it's any better
> performance than Windows then I'll just get rid of the card but the card
> kicks as I was compressing a 2GB file into a 600MB Mpeg using 100% CPU usage
> and yet playing a video at the same time never jerked once whilst using the
> card and that makes me quite happy.

It's not better.  The Hollywood+ support is not even ready for most use
yet.

Andrew.

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