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To: StockDoc who wrote (33144)6/5/1998 1:55:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572159
 
StockDoc - Re: "would the new AMD chip make realplayer show a better (i.e., enjoyable) quality video, TV programs online or it has nothing to do with the processor?"

The current Real Player is written to run under Windows 95 (and maybe some other older operating systems) and, assuming Real Player uses DirectX graphics function calls, the current version (DirectX 5) does NOT SUPOORT AMD's K6-2 new MMX instructions. The yet-to-be-released DirectX 6 supports the K6-2 3D instructions - so then you will need to verify if Real Player uses DirectX APIs for video/audio functions.

As for TV programs On-Line, the speed of your Internet connection will most likely throttle the performance, masking out any advantages of the 3D features of the K6-2.

Re: "Can any of the products, from AMD or Intel, make a video look like a real film shot on celluloid?"

Most "movies" are compressed using various compression algorithms, MPEG-2 being one of the most popular. The speed of CPUs from Intel and AMD (the FAST VERSIONS) can decode these in software and blip them onto a TV display but the image quality is no where near film/celluloid quality which is approximately equivalent to 2000 to 4000 lines per inch resolution (on the film) in at least 16 million colors.

The compression/decompression process reduces the resolution of fine details, and the limited screen resolution with frame size/color level trade offs will restrict the quality of the displayed images.

Paul



To: StockDoc who wrote (33144)6/5/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: mirada  Respond to of 1572159
 
"Can any of the products, from AMD or Intel, make a video look like a real film shot on celluloid?"

The only viable means to provide such a video quality "NOW" is DVD. Check out Encore from CREAF which is about $250+ shipping. The MPEG-2 decoder chip on board is said to come from CUBE. High end CPU and software will be able to do the job but at a much higher cost.


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