Re: DVD player
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Video RAM is nearly irrelevant. Anything with 2MB can do
> 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD. For film-source DVDs
> you want 72Hz or 96Hz refresh so you need a RAMDAC of 82MHz or 110MHz
> respectively. The other consideration for video cards is that it really
> must have an implementation of Xvideo for XFree86, hardware color space
> conversion, hardware scaling, and it must have enough video memory
> bandwidth to convert/scale at 1024x768/16.
>
> Briefly: you need at least a Matrox Millenium (c. 1995).
> -jwb
This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards now,
with at least 8mb standard, with 32mb in a lot, and in my case 64mb? Just
wondering.
Peter.
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