A while back, wasn't there a multimedia kit that had a cd-rom, and soundcard/mpeg accelerator board? I think Creative might have made it, not sure. Even if I could find one, doubt it would be affordable, as I imagine they're rare.
I think the earliest PC MPEG hardware decoder was the ReelMagic, it was an ISA card.
There were some games released with versions specifically designed for it - notably Return to Zork. I have a ReelMagic card but I don't have any of the games 🙁
I need to make a VESA feature connector cable, which I haven't gotten around to yet, so I'm unable to test it with movie files.
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the creative labs dxr3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Labs-DXR3-Ha … r/dp/B00004Y7MB
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We had a thread about these (sort of) here:
MPEG 1/2(DVD) hardware decoder cards
wrote:We had a thread about these (sort of) here:
MPEG 1/2(DVD) hardware decoder cards
I changed the thread title on that to make it more general now. There was some chat in there about the MPEG 1 cards anyway as you noted.
