POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Electric sheep : Re: Electric sheep Server Time
11 Oct 2024 09:20:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Electric sheep  
From: Invisible
Date: 10 Jan 2008 11:41:36
Message: <47864ac0$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> I used to, but stopped because the MPEG video showing at fullscreen 
> (plus the fact that you may end up rendering frames for them) needs some 
> CPU time.

<I'm old>

I can remember when decoding MPEG-1 in realtime required specialised 
hardware - and encoding required a very high-end computer system!

And today, my PC is decoding MPEG-2 in realtime using idle CPU cycles... 
How times have changed!

</I'm old>


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