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nicte
 Post subject: CineView MPEG2 card
Unread postPosted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:50 pm 
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Hi Everyone,

any info about this card ?
any drivers ?
usefull or just throw it to a bin...

THA

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This is a Wintel PCI card right? Weren't these things popular back when they first started putting DVDs into PCs (97-98 )? Helped to smooth out playback on the older CPUs? Not sure but i remember something along those lines. Also, remember some ISA cards for DOS back in '93 to help accelerate MPEG1 (was used for some video games, Hollywood card maybe?). i'd keep it around for kicks.

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unfotunatelly it is not seen by a IRIX
so some special drivers are needed
but I receive the machine with clean disk :(
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Is that a Vela Research card?

http://www.vela.com

If so try to get drivers from them. Did it come in an SGI? The only Vela product I've ever seen that works under IRIX is their SCSI-attached MPEG2 decoders.
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lepek26
 Post subject: Re: CineView MPEG2 card
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http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ml#id71590

So I'm looking for this driver... :?

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 Post subject: Re: CineView MPEG2 card
Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:31 am 
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From the doc it appears to be included in the Video Server Toolkit, and likely is not much use without that.

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VeKTeReX wrote:
This is a Wintel PCI card right? Weren't these things popular back when they first started putting DVDs into PCs (97-98 )? Helped to smooth out playback on the older CPUs? Not sure but i remember something along those lines. Also, remember some ISA cards for DOS back in '93 to help accelerate MPEG1 (was used for some video games, Hollywood card maybe?). i'd keep it around for kicks.

/KRM


Yeah in December 99 I got a Sigma Design Hollywood Magic PCI card to assist with the DVD decoding as my Pentium 233 MMX/Permedia 2/Voodoo2 couldn't play it back smoothly. It was a great card for being able to do Dolby Digital out via the S/PIDF and has S-Video out as well so I could drive my parents CRT TVs :)

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Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:08 am 
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Adrenaline wrote:
VeKTeReX wrote:
This is a Wintel PCI card right? Weren't these things popular back when they first started putting DVDs into PCs (97-98 )? Helped to smooth out playback on the older CPUs? Not sure but i remember something along those lines. Also, remember some ISA cards for DOS back in '93 to help accelerate MPEG1 (was used for some video games, Hollywood card maybe?). i'd keep it around for kicks.

/KRM


Yeah in December 99 I got a Sigma Design Hollywood Magic PCI card to assist with the DVD decoding as my Pentium 233 MMX/Permedia 2/Voodoo2 couldn't play it back smoothly. It was a great card for being able to do Dolby Digital out via the S/PIDF and has S-Video out as well so I could drive my parents CRT TVs :)


Of course it a good thing that we can play back video these days with no additional cards, but i do miss those types of hardware, specialized DSPs, higher-end audio cards and so forth. Those were the days LOL..
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