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Bruce Hoult <Bruce@hoult.actrix.gen.nz> wrote in article
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> dam45@address.in.sig (David A. Mann) writes:
> >  I just love the Intel ad that claims the PII enables us to watch
> > full-screen DVD video.  Yeah, right.  MPEG-2 decompression is done by
> > the hardware - to do it in software requires about a 433MHz Alpha
> > workstation to get a full 30fps frame rate, according to the DVD FAQ.
> It might take that much of an Alpha (which would be a few years old at
> this point, anyway), but any 200+ MHz PowerPC 604e or 750 will do 30 fps
> "full screen" MPEG decoding in software, and my 266 MHz PPC750 will even
> make a pretty good attempt at blowing the MPEG up to 1024 x 768 at the
> same time.

It may be a different beast you are referring too. The MPEGs you are
looking at are "lossy" correct? They have degraded images? On a DVD for
watching a movie, I don't think you could cope with any loss at all, so the
picture quality must be very high (Higher than VHS or broadcast TV). And
the sound must be good too (2, 4 or 5 channels, thus negating the need for
a dolby decoder (Hurrah, they have had a monopoly for too long if you ask
me)).

LOTS of compressed data been shuffled. I think it may need quite a chunk of
processing power.