Subject: RE: Wallstreet woes (DVD and decoder, esp)
From: Walls, Bryan (Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 18:20:19 MST
Rats and oh, well.
Thanks for the helpful answer. I was several mentions of the need for a
decoder card, but none ever said exactly what kind, and I was hoping it was
something like a daughtercard or other such plugin on the interior.
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy A. Seufert
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Sent: 1/29/02 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: Wallstreet woes (DVD and decoder, esp)
At 9:01 PM -0600 1/28/02, Walls, Bryan wrote:
>My Wallstreet 300MHz DVD died on me.
>
>I have access to a slower non-DVD Wallstreet. I've swapped my drive and
CPU
>over, and am more or less back in business.
>
>But I understand there is a hardware MPEG decoder in my original
Wallstreet.
No, there isn't. Not inside, anyways. Only the 400 MHz 101 (aka
Lombard) has hardware MPEG acceleration on the motherboard.
>What does it look like, and where is it?
If your Wall Street came with a DVD drive it should have come with a
hardware MPEG decode PC Card. To play DVDs under MacOS with a Wall
Street you have to insert the card into one of the PCMCIA slots.
If you bought the machine used and it didn't include that card, you
got gypped I'm afraid.
>Can YDL use the decoder to play DVDs? Or would I be wasting my time,
unless
>I boot back to MacOS to watch a DVD?
No, YDL can't do that.
-- Tim Seufert
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