| From: | Chris Millar |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2001 at 01:24:37 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] DVD Playback |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Deacon" <andy@deakmann.demon.co.uk>
To: <amigactive@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: [amigactive] DVD Playback
> I've just bought a 16x Samsung DVD ROM (IDE).
>
> After installing I checked a few CD's to make sure everything worked
> as it did with my old 36x CDROM, and no problems:)
>
> I then moved onto some DVD's, to my suprise Cache CDFS had no trouble
> reading the files on the disks and displaying a couple of pictures on
> it ( I thought this required a filesystem which supported DVD such as
> Allegro CDFS?).
>
> Playback via AMP2.03 seems to work fine , though somewhat slowly, I
> understand this is largely down to the slow IDE interface (I use an
> IDE Express adaptor).
>
> Has anyone got any tips on speeding up playback? , i've tried
> adjusting the cache settings in Cache CDFS without any luck:(
>
> I imagine that DVD playback using AMP will work very nicely on the
> Amiga ONE.
Alas, current Amiga hardware is not capable of decoding .vob files.
ISTR trying to and failing, when I had my BPPC, PowerFlyer/Allegro, DVD
drive combo.
What you are seeing, are probably menu screens etc.. and not the real DVD
files.
WRT the A1 & DVD playback, that is, as always dependant on drivers for PCI
MPEG2 decoder cards.
Slainte Mhath,
Chris
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