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

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 16:34 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:26 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Yeah sorry I did not want to restart that flame war, I was just trying
> to illustrate a point...
>

    No need to apologize. I certainly favor your view on this. I just
wish there were some way to get a really good, accelerated, open 3D
driver for some video card.

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Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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