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grinvader wrote:Sorry to nitpick, but "software acceleration" is a pretty dumb buzzword
Did you mean: software optimisation

Fixed

I'm looking for a VC-1 / WMV9 decoder that's extremely CPU-efficient in software mode (when not using DXVA). Something like a VC-1 version of CoreAVC (a great H.264 software decoder). The default Windows Media codecs are extremely slow. I've also tried ffdshow - it's noticeably faster but still not ...

Something I always wondered about, why the fuck are the factory settings always maxing the fucking brightness I usually tune them to 10/100 or less for proper picture brightness as in "i can see the dark shades of grey Newer (16:9 full HD) panels are even worse (read: waaaay too bright) :D You...

What do you guys recommend for antivirus software.?

Linux (live CD) with the command-line version of AntiVir

nintendo_nerd wrote:What confuses me is how emulators, such as PJ64 run slower than they normally should.

Use the OpenGL plugin / renderer.

ATI Catalyst 9.8 (for Windows) is out:

* Full OpenGL 3.1 support (GLSL 1.40)
* 33% of OpenGL 3.2 supported
* Geometry shaders
* 157 extensions

Either way, I think you'd get more appreciation adding things to Mednafen (like the GUI), rather than using its PC-Engine core and claiming you have a brand new emulator. *snip* ROFL! @__ XD @Exophase: Stop attacking the newsposter and send all your hate mail to the real project owner (pault414). J...

pcejin - a brand new TAS/rr mod of (the PC Engine part of) Mednafen with a really nice GUI:

http://code.google.com/p/pcejin/

...and now with OpenCL support :) AMD has released a beta version of its ATI Stream SDK with OpenCL support The ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) is a complete development platform to allow you to quickly and easily develop applications accelerated by ATI Stream Technology. This version 2.0 ...

AMD is also working on their OpenGL 3.2 driver for Linux.

OpenGL 3.2 Released with Geometry Shaders Support The Khronos Group on Monday nnounced OpenGL 3.2, the third major update in twelve months to the widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API. This new release continues the rapid evolution of the OpenGL standard to enable graphics developers to access cutti...

If you use the 'Rip' option,you can't select separate tracks. Weird.

You'll have to add the tracks to the playlist first and then use the 'convert' option from the right-click context menu.

Is this possible with the latest version of Foobar2000?
All I want to do is to rip a single track, but looks like foobar's GUI is lacking a much needed feature You can only rip complete CDs,not single tracks.

Take the current ALSA and fuse it with the 64-bit FP SW mixer from OSS4, integrate JACK2 into the mix (for ridiculously low latencies and advanced connectivity) and you have the perfect Linux audio system

Good news for NVIDIA users:

The latest NVIDIA (BETA) driver has full OpenGL 3.1 support (including GLSL 1.40) and 5 more extensions

Squall_Leonhart wrote:they can support 3.x all they want, but everything lower is still pathetic.

Still terrible, but there's a small improvement (3%) in the vertex shader performance with the new drivers,even with old (<= GL 2.1) games/apps

ATI Catalyst 9.6 gets 10 new extensions, full OpenGL 3.1 support is almost there (80%), GL geometry shaders and more: http://www.geeks3d.com/20090610/ati-catalyst-96-beta-a-stack-of-new-opengl-extensions/ Interestingly, it seems AMD is seriously updating the OpenGL part of Catalyst. Catalyst 9.6 sta...

There's something even better:

MicroCore Linux - extremely tiny: 7 MB (LOL)

Has all the features of Tiny Core Linux, minus the X desktop (CLI only)

The best distro for compiling stuff

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... x/release/

@sweener: Links updated (see first page)
A new (bugfixed) version of Puppy was released yesterday. Get that one

1.1 Insanely difficult to set up volume levels ... and in some situations even audio output. WTF? I find the Gnome (Ubuntu) mixer easy to use and quite powerful. Even the commandline ALSA Mixer is user friendly. The mixer implementation in Windows 7 / Vista is what I really hate - downright terribl...

"12. Bad security model: there's zero protection against keyboard keyloggers and against running malicious software (Linux is viruses free only due to its extremely low popularity)." The biggest problem by far is there's no way to run an IP filtering app like PeerGuardian/MoBlock globally...

I've been curious about one thing. NTSC w/ Bilinear and TV Aspect looks like wider to me than for example Standard w/ TV Aspect. What you're actually doing is applying the aspect ratio correction twice :) You should UNCHECK the 'TV Aspect ratio' checkbox in the NTSC filter options, since the emulat...

To be fair the author is also working to make sure the standard apps are updated and that there is support for a larger variety of software in the next puppy release, perhaps supporting .deb packages etc (meaning you could easily plug into debian and ubuntu repositories). Meet Puppy 5.0 (a.k.a. 'Up...

giving linux a spin, and i like ubuntu so far. it's the only linux where i've been able to sucessfully install video card drivers. but now my issue is sound. i'm running an m-audio revolution 5.1 through the spdif optical out. from the little research i've done, it just doesn't seem like i'm going ...

Audio buffering / latency in Gambatte ---------------------------------------------- Just tried the Linux .deb package of Gambatte-Qt with OSS 4.1 on a really old PC with a SoundMAX AC97 onboard chip. I've set the audio latency all the way down to 4ms and surprisingly, there's no difference in the s...