[linux-audio-user] ogg for Windows made really easy

[Brad Fuller]

Jan Depner wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:18 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:47 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
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>>>>On 11:48 AM Jan Depner wrote:
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>>>>>I find it amusing that so many people who won't use MP3 due to its
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>>>>>>"encumbrance" will happily run the proprietary Nvidia driver...
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>>>>Is there an alternative to the Nvidia driver? If so, I sure would like 
>>>>to know what it is!
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>>>Yes, the open source "nv" driver.  Does not support hardware accelerated
>>>3D, but then again we care more about free software than being able to
>>>use every bell and whistle, right?
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>>I care about getting the job done well, first of all. I sure would like 
>>it to be FOSS, though!
>>On my systems, the nvidia driver seems to work better for mpeg2 than nv. 
>>That's why I'm using it. But, it too has problems on some older nvidia 
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>    We've been through this before.  If all you have to worry about is
>mpeg2 playback you should be able to get by with the nv driver.  I have
>extreme 3D requirements (not games) and there is not a comparable driver
>of any type for any other card
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can the nv driver make use of nvidia hw facilities like XvMC? If so, 
that'd be great.