Voodoo3 and BeOS

[Kristan Slack]

>I believe this is still true, but BeOS has no hardware acceleration for
>voodoo cards, and for that matter many cards. I had a voodoo3 2000 card and

erm.... that's plain wrong.

I may be going out on a limb here... but the only hardware acceleration 
missing is that for 3D graphics...
2d acceleration exists... if it didn't, you'd get performance similar to the 
VESA driver which eats CPU.

>video for mine wasn't very good for Mpeg files. They always looked so much

there's a different reason for that..

try smpeg...

>better under win98 or Win2K. I know that most Quicktime files won't even run
>under BeOS.  I have several files that won't run and only two that will.
>This is because very liitle information about quicktime has been given to
>the the developers of BeOS.   Therefore, they (the developers at Be) don't
>know how to exactly write the code.  That's how it was explained to me.


somewhat.. it's because Apple holds an exclusive license on the sorenson 
codec and won't be releasing the details to anybody anytime soon for anything 
less than a mountain of money...

>Jeff

[Original message]
>> Why with my Voodoo3 3000 on a PIII 550 using BeOS R5 the sound is nearly
>> perfect, but the video is really slow (as frameskipped)?
>> I've also 128MB of ram, please tell me how can I do, I tried all
>> resolutions...

is this with an mpeg? a dvd? or something else


regards,
Kristan Slack