[csw-users] DVD help pt2

[H. Streit]

Okay, well, I have to admit, our UNIX Admin was running Xine for 
DVD-playback.  I've never tried "ogle", but I'll give it a whirl when 
I'm done with my Solaris 10 upgrade.  Btw, a while back, someone wrote 
an article on getting XFree86 to work on Solaris so you could use the 
drivers for other video cards...maybe it'll work with a SPARC-based 
beauty, too...
Oh, and how the hell did you get a hold of a SunRay?!?
Btw, Xig is a pretty hardcore X server.  I tried it out on Solaris x86 
once, pretty sweet!

jreid at ctc.net wrote:
>>Not all of Sun's video cards are PCI, there's a dedicated bus on some 
>>mainboards (UPA, UXP, or something....).  But I'm sure all the latest 
>>workstations have PCI66 video...and cost aside, the XVR-600 is about 
>>$400.  It's an ATI Radeon card. DVD-playback, yeah.  Full Screen, 
>>nope. (The UNIX Admin here has one, stutters pretty bad on fullscreen)
>>Go figure.
> 
> Yeah, I know all about UPA - want to buy an sbus Elite 3d-m6 with daughter
> board - the big mother for the ultra2???  I'll sell it cheap :-)
> 
> I was really hoping to get fullscreen dvd playback working, I've spent a
> long time putting together a sparc based HTPC!!!  I'm mostly an audio guy
> so I've just finished most of the audio stuff and was starting to work on
> the video stuff now that sol10 is out, but it doesn't look good!
> 
> What I really wanted was to get Xchimera going with my Sunrays at home and
> use a few of those on a custom built multi panel lcd screen...guess that's
> not gonna work either...
> 
> any thoughts on putting another X server on the machine and using 3rd party video card?
> 
> --
> Joe Reid
> jreid at vnet.net
> http://www.singlewhitemale.net
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