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

From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 23:26:11 EET

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:18 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:47 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 11:48 AM Jan Depner wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I find it amusing that so many people who won't use MP3 due to its
> >>> > "encumbrance" will happily run the proprietary Nvidia driver...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Is there an alternative to the Nvidia driver? If so, I sure would like
> >>to know what it is!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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?
> >
> >
> 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
> chipsets.

    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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