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Bocmaxima - Jan 21, 2002

		MasterAkumaMatata	Feb 4, 2002
		Curious, how many F P S are you getting (so far)?

		Bocmaxima	Feb 4, 2002
		Where do I get a Saturn VCD card?

RadSil

Feb 4, 2002

Quote: from Curtis on 9:37 pm on Feb. 3, 2002

Bah - forget VCD, 'coz Divx is here. I've been breifly trying the alpha versions of the dcDivx player and things are looking good (so far). Go to www.dcemulation.com... or www.dcvision.com... for the downloads.

Wow, that sounds sweet. I'm going to wait for it to mature a bit though.

I also wonder how fast it decompresses. In theory, if you used the PVR to it's full power, you could probably play DivX videos at a really high framerate; the chip has many MPEG video-friendly capabilities.

Curtis

Feb 4, 2002

Quote: from MasterAkumaMatata on 2:01 pm on Feb. 4, 2002

Curious, how many F P S are you getting (so far)?

Well, with a 350-400k (at 320x180) clip, with 22k, 56kbs stereo mp3 audio, it was having no problem at all with 24 fps. The author claims it runs an 800k clip with 44k mono sound with few problems.

The only real disadvantage it the resolution - it's limitied to 496x496 because the player is derived from the PocketDivx project.

Still, that's 2-3 movies per disc

		Curtis	Feb 6, 2002
		Well, the player is only supposed to support Divx 4.xx. Preliminary support for 3.11 is there (in Alpha 0.3) but I haven't tried it yet. Re-encode your vids using the latest Divx (4.12, I think) and use only an MP3 codec for audio.

		SegaSaturnDDR	Feb 7, 2002
		playstation's vcd cards work fine, ive used them, and the saturn vcd player (not gypplay) is absoluely worthless, it wont even keep the audio in sync. although what i would recomend is getting a cheap dvd player (They are the BEST) because that would play vcds, plus mpeg files straight off a disk, and mp3s, as well as dvds, and prolly wouldnt cost much more than a saturn/psx vcd card.