Hey DaveB3D - RAMPAGE DVD support ?

[miniMUNCH]

What's the DVD playback going to be like on the RAMPAGE cards in terms of image quality and CPU use. What will be the options for this feature, I see a few scenarios:

-RAMPAGE card w/ software decoding, does the chip have harware acceleration for cosine transformation

-some RAMPAGE card designed with onboard decoder chip (like the Rage theater chip)

-RAMPAGE cards have a connector for compatibility with VoodooTV, daughter board, and/or others

Can anyone spill some beans here...

 

[DaveB3D]

Can you seriously expect me to say anything?

 

[ElFenix]

heheh NDAs suck...

wonder if TSMC will tell me if they're making something for 3dfx other than vsa-100s right now...

 

[Dark4ng3l]

actualy I beleve they still make voodoo3 chips( and voodoo2, I think)

 

[miniMUNCH]

Hey Dave.. you can't blame me for trying to pry some information can ya? :

 

[Pete]

Can you seriously expect me to say anything?

No, but that carrot is making me blind with rage!

 

[Sunner]

Who cares, every CPU out there can do it in software these days

 

[jpprod]

Gotta agree with Sunner, bundling a high-quality software DVD player does a card's "public DVD quality image" much more good than implementing hardware support into the chip. I mean just look at Matrox G400 - zero hardware support with superb propieatary playback software has gotten many ppl recommend it as a DVD solution.

OTOH with Rampage 3dfx seems to go back to the good old days of Voodoo1 - market-leading feature set. And hardware iDCT and MC sure can't hurt a chip on this area