Ariel Biener wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> Ok. Has anyone ever managed to make VMware detect the decoder card, and
> use it for playing ? Since it uses the decoder, and not the host CPU, it
> should run ok I assume.
>
> --Ariel
Very unlikely.
VMWare provides a virtual machine which has no direct connection to the real
machine. It provides emulation. It emulates only what it supports.
In other words, in order to support an MPEG-2 decoder, vmware would have to
have access to it first.
There is, however, a software decoder for Windows called PowerDVD. This
decoder need no hardware MPEG-2 card. However, it requires great proccessing
time -- 300MHz at least. VMWare's virtual machine reduces the guest OS's
computing power, therefore, it will take a very fast host computer to do
that, assuming that video frame buffers work well in VMWare.
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