Every decoder I've tried typically consumed at least 10% CPU utilization on my Windows K6-2 450, and 40-60% utilization on my Linux powered 200MHz Cyrix machine
Well Cyrix sucks ass, and so does pre-Athlon AMD (well, I heard good things about the K6-III but I never got the chance to see it for myself). My P200-MMX under Windows never needed half the processor to play OGG's. I read earlier that the reference decoder used everywhere is floating point intensive, so it's really no surprise to see this on procesors with crap FP (I believe a Cyrix processor at 200 had less FP power than a genuine P90 if memory serves, and until the Athlon came along AMD wasn't much better off).
If that's all the hardware you've got to work with then I guess you have to use whatever software works best for you, but really you're falling into the same boat as all those gamers complaining that Quake was'nt up to snuff on their non-intel systems, for the exact same reason.
especially for windoze listeners who use winamp (it does do ogg by default now, right?)
Nope. They had planned to do so a few releases back, but it just hasn't materialized. Many feel the spectre of AOL exerting control over it's subsidiary for some reason is to blame;'
Ha ha! East-coasters have it a quarter cheaper!
$9.50 in Halifax baby! (provided you insist on seeing it full price, $6.50 mon-thurs & matinees are pretty sweet;'> )
If you're codec is patent free, the people over at the ogg multimedia project would be bigtime interested. They've got the audio portion (vorbis) well along but they're still aways away from having their video portion (tarkin) completed. Head over here for more info
It depends on the disc really. Most high quality transfers from film are encoded on the disc in a progressive 24fps format, while TV shows on DVD are encoded in their native interlaced format. DVD player internals control the output. If you're playing a disc encoded in a progressive form with an analog output the DVD player assumes you're playing on a standard TV and converts it on the fly into an interlaced signal. If you've got the right hardware you can play those discs in their native 480p format without converting to 480i. It's expensive with the price of the right kind of DVD player and HDTV compatible TV, definitely possible and being done right now.
well yeah, I mean Herbert himself stated that he had a 7th book planned to tie everything up with, but then he kicked the bucket;'
and then his son announced a few months before releasing House: Atreides that they'd found a safety deposit box his father owned but that the family had known nothing about, and inside were some old 5 1/4" floppies with all his notes on his planned "Dune 7". So Brian Herbert's plan as far as I've been aware for the past few years has been to finish the prequel trilogy he was already writing then write the finale the way his dad's notes say he wanted it written. So it's very possible he's sitting at a keyboard working on it right now.
Go here
and read the 'myths' section then tell me again how CD quality sucks (would have linked directly but the pages are designed to automatically shunt you to the frontpage if linked to from an external source)
// The truth is, AMD can "require" that people hide it all they want, but they cannot make anyone actually do so.
I wasn't debating that point;'>
What I meant was that until those bios revisions come in, an Athlon model 1600 would still register as an Athlon 1400 MHz in what it would report on startup
// I fail to see how this will help. It seems to me that it will only confuse the consumer. You take the one piece of data that the average buyer uses as a benchmark (the MHz rating) and completely obscure it.
That's the whole frickin point of it!
// It seems to me that the consumer would be better served by AMD advertising in plain language why their chips are better than the competition's.
They've tried for years to educate Joe Average that MHz isn't everything but time has proven this hopeless. Time to go back to the old PR system to make Joe Average happy while those in the know will still be able to learn what's really going on under the hood with a little digging.
// I think the credits mention a joint venture
// between Canada and Germany. Not sure where it
// is filmed but I believe I heard it was done in
// Nova Scotia. Since the last episode ended on a
// beach and Nova Scotia is surrounded by
// beach,...
Yeah, the Canadian input for Lexx is by Salter Street Films, and if memory serves me most if not all of the first two seasons and I believe the forthcoming fourth season have all been filmed right here in Halifax NS. Of course, that scene your thinking of was at the tail end of the third season which was filmed in Germany.:'>
Season 4 starts playing in I believe a few weeks (up here at least, though if history is repeated it may take an extra six months to show up south of the border) but it'll still be a few months before the fourth season is finished to the end. And of course my brother has read through the season long synopsis so knows everything planned, but he aint talking *grrrr*
Actually I've got a friend who's DSL routinely gets him 3-400KB/s off of high bandwidth servers (tucows and the like). Granted, I know people in other parts of the city (Dartmouth NS, Canada) who have less than stellar DSL coverage. Because of this uncertainty, and the fact that my cable modem might not perform quite that well but it's been working consistently for me for 4+ years so I'm happy.
// I'm damned if I know what's going on in.shadowrealm,.mirage-mrg, or.purity
They're movie distro groups, or at shadowrealm is. They released their own ms-mp4 codec hack to differentiate themselves from the rest of the DivX scene, the SMR nAVI codec. It's basically the same as DivX only they didn't bother to change M$'s four-cc codes that Gej & crew did. And I'm fairly certain I've seen mirage and purity labelled on some DivX's on IRC at one time or another so they're just other groups vieing for l33t status by trying to put out the best DVD rips and theatre screeners first. Yawn.
My monies on early next year before EVERY episode gets online from DVD rips.
Low-grade Realvideo caps off the vhs releases and TV broadcasts have been floating around for ages if you do some digging. Yes, DVD rips will probably supplant these over time, but you have to remember that it'll be awhile before the entire series is fully released on DVD. At 2 individual DVDs and three disc box-sets with bonus material coming every month or so (I remember reading that somewhere on robotech.com a few weeks back) they're aiming at having the entire series released by early next year. What's out there now on DVD is the first 12 episodes, there's 85 in total.
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Every decoder I've tried typically consumed at least 10% CPU utilization on my Windows K6-2 450, and 40-60% utilization on my Linux powered 200MHz Cyrix machine Well Cyrix sucks ass, and so does pre-Athlon AMD (well, I heard good things about the K6-III but I never got the chance to see it for myself). My P200-MMX under Windows never needed half the processor to play OGG's. I read earlier that the reference decoder used everywhere is floating point intensive, so it's really no surprise to see this on procesors with crap FP (I believe a Cyrix processor at 200 had less FP power than a genuine P90 if memory serves, and until the Athlon came along AMD wasn't much better off). If that's all the hardware you've got to work with then I guess you have to use whatever software works best for you, but really you're falling into the same boat as all those gamers complaining that Quake was'nt up to snuff on their non-intel systems, for the exact same reason.
especially for windoze listeners who use winamp (it does do ogg by default now, right?) Nope. They had planned to do so a few releases back, but it just hasn't materialized. Many feel the spectre of AOL exerting control over it's subsidiary for some reason is to blame ;'
Ha ha! East-coasters have it a quarter cheaper! ;'> )
$9.50 in Halifax baby! (provided you insist on seeing it full price, $6.50 mon-thurs & matinees are pretty sweet
If you're codec is patent free, the people over at the ogg multimedia project would be bigtime interested. They've got the audio portion (vorbis) well along but they're still aways away from having their video portion (tarkin) completed. Head over here for more info
It depends on the disc really. Most high quality transfers from film are encoded on the disc in a progressive 24fps format, while TV shows on DVD are encoded in their native interlaced format. DVD player internals control the output. If you're playing a disc encoded in a progressive form with an analog output the DVD player assumes you're playing on a standard TV and converts it on the fly into an interlaced signal. If you've got the right hardware you can play those discs in their native 480p format without converting to 480i. It's expensive with the price of the right kind of DVD player and HDTV compatible TV, definitely possible and being done right now.
well yeah, I mean Herbert himself stated that he had a 7th book planned to tie everything up with, but then he kicked the bucket ;'
and then his son announced a few months before releasing House: Atreides that they'd found a safety deposit box his father owned but that the family had known nothing about, and inside were some old 5 1/4" floppies with all his notes on his planned "Dune 7". So Brian Herbert's plan as far as I've been aware for the past few years has been to finish the prequel trilogy he was already writing then write the finale the way his dad's notes say he wanted it written. So it's very possible he's sitting at a keyboard working on it right now.
Go here and read the 'myths' section then tell me again how CD quality sucks (would have linked directly but the pages are designed to automatically shunt you to the frontpage if linked to from an external source)
Well since the review and it's mirror are /.ed a quick google search turned up the company's brief product overview here
that's nice, except that he said he was running 2k, not 98.
or just leave the case open and stack the Live! Drive on top :'>
no no! go with the Monkey for your lossless audio needs!
I'm only aware of the reference encoders offered by the people who created the format. The latest release is noticibly better than the older one.
yes the vorbis plugin has been included with all winamp installs for the past 2 versions
// C'mon, dudes, anything plays VBR these days (even my crappy kenwood in-dash car player). Am I missing some wonderful CBR advantage here?!?!
Why yes of course!
VBR makes the numbers all jump around when playing, CBR makes em nice and steady.
// The truth is, AMD can "require" that people hide it all they want, but they cannot make anyone actually do so.
;'>
I wasn't debating that point
What I meant was that until those bios revisions come in, an Athlon model 1600 would still register as an Athlon 1400 MHz in what it would report on startup
actually, if I read the article right it'll require a new bios to HIDE the actual clock speed and report the model number instead.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to see the Athlon that rate a PR200, yuk!
// I fail to see how this will help. It seems to me that it will only confuse the consumer. You take the one piece of data that the average buyer uses as a benchmark (the MHz rating) and completely obscure it.
That's the whole frickin point of it!
// It seems to me that the consumer would be better served by AMD advertising in plain language why their chips are better than the competition's.
They've tried for years to educate Joe Average that MHz isn't everything but time has proven this hopeless. Time to go back to the old PR system to make Joe Average happy while those in the know will still be able to learn what's really going on under the hood with a little digging.
I'll taunt Mr Happy Chip all I want!
*taunt* *taunt*
// but how can the people who use them expect to
// be able to run an ancient plugin with a
// spankin' new browser?
For the same reason certain engineers insist on including backwards compatibility for 8bit code on a 64bit CPU. It's always worked before!
or if he's using a windows box he could go for Monkey's Audio!
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
I just love the name
// I think the credits mention a joint venture
:'>
// between Canada and Germany. Not sure where it
// is filmed but I believe I heard it was done in
// Nova Scotia. Since the last episode ended on a
// beach and Nova Scotia is surrounded by
// beach,...
Yeah, the Canadian input for Lexx is by Salter Street Films, and if memory serves me most if not all of the first two seasons and I believe the forthcoming fourth season have all been filmed right here in Halifax NS. Of course, that scene your thinking of was at the tail end of the third season which was filmed in Germany.
Season 4 starts playing in I believe a few weeks (up here at least, though if history is repeated it may take an extra six months to show up south of the border) but it'll still be a few months before the fourth season is finished to the end. And of course my brother has read through the season long synopsis so knows everything planned, but he aint talking *grrrr*
Actually I've got a friend who's DSL routinely gets him 3-400KB/s off of high bandwidth servers (tucows and the like). Granted, I know people in other parts of the city (Dartmouth NS, Canada) who have less than stellar DSL coverage. Because of this uncertainty, and the fact that my cable modem might not perform quite that well but it's been working consistently for me for 4+ years so I'm happy.
// I'm damned if I know what's going on in .shadowrealm, .mirage-mrg, or .purity
They're movie distro groups, or at shadowrealm is. They released their own ms-mp4 codec hack to differentiate themselves from the rest of the DivX scene, the SMR nAVI codec. It's basically the same as DivX only they didn't bother to change M$'s four-cc codes that Gej & crew did. And I'm fairly certain I've seen mirage and purity labelled on some DivX's on IRC at one time or another so they're just other groups vieing for l33t status by trying to put out the best DVD rips and theatre screeners first. Yawn.
My monies on early next year before EVERY episode gets online from DVD rips.
Low-grade Realvideo caps off the vhs releases and TV broadcasts have been floating around for ages if you do some digging. Yes, DVD rips will probably supplant these over time, but you have to remember that it'll be awhile before the entire series is fully released on DVD. At 2 individual DVDs and three disc box-sets with bonus material coming every month or so (I remember reading that somewhere on robotech.com a few weeks back) they're aiming at having the entire series released by early next year. What's out there now on DVD is the first 12 episodes, there's 85 in total.