I wonder if this means that Virtual PC 8 is near and will accelerate 3D with the video card. Reportedly, Virtual PC is the key to XBox backward compatibility.

Speaking of xbox, is anyone going to purchase Jade Empire? Looks good. 95% average score from reviews.

Good news since I don't have MTV channel.

Btw, that controller definitely looks like the average piece of M$ dreck. . .

Don't like the controller, but I have a pair of wireless controllers anyway. Anyone know if X1 games will play just fine?

Awesome. I just love it when Microsoft stands to loose even more money...hehe. hopefully it'll be an even bigger 'success' for them than their current offering lol.

Quote: Originally posted by Hawkeye_a: Awesome. I just love it when Microsoft stands to loose even more money...hehe. hopefully it'll be an even bigger 'success' for the…

C'mon, how much better can you get? A great gaming system (better than ps2) and M$ loses money on each set sold.

I expect this is very easy in Cocoa, but I can't find a good reference to it... I just need to launch the default web browser from within my app, passing the required URL. Note: …

Take a look at the docs for NSWorkspace.

thanks Chuck - that did the job!

Quote: The best I've got it to play so far is some big 720p, that the network calls HD. 1080i is still locking up. Rough timings from my initial tests with 720p on one …

Has anyone had any success compiling the source code? I get errors during compile with Xcode and end up with a broken app.

Success! Here's what you need to do: 1. Create a new account named "johnd". Log into this new account. 2. Download the FFMpeg source code from http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/. I…

I'm not sure I understand this. Let me get this straight, this Accellent thing is for better mpeg2 playback by using the gpu, right?

Exactly. Apple�s DVD Player is currently the only app that can make use of the GPU to decode MPEG-2 content. Other apps, such as VLC, must use the CPU to accomplish this. While a …

The most recent FFMpeg snapshot that compiles using the patch files is 4/18/05. Accellent cannot play any high definition MPEG-2 files (those with a video size greater than 720 pi…

Quote: Originally Posted by f1000 AccellentCPU Usage: 24-28% (average 25%)Frame Rate: 30 fps? But the output is corrupt on this one?

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton But the output is corrupt on this one? Unfortunately, yes. Certain HD files will also cause Accellent to crash in such a manner t…

Bad news: this is broken under 10.4. I've pulled all the files together and set everything up nicely. It dies, invalid kernel access and such. I've emailed the author. We'll see …

blueandwhiteg3, I've been following your posts in the DVB developer forum and recently noticed that you have been trying to do the same thing that I had previously tried to do: con…

Accellent v0.3 is now available: Quote: Originally Posted by FyKnight Hello testers, Accellent v0.3 is out, and this time includes a binary so non-developers can run it too.…

Neither Accellent v0.2 nor v0.3 works for me. Accellent v0.3 crashes upon startup if I drag-and-drop any of the sample video files onto it (.mpg or VOB). Hardware Specifications:…

Accellent v0.3 crashes on an iMac running Panther as well. Hardware Specifications:1 GHz 17" iMac G4 (3.3) GeForce4 MX 64MB Crash Report:OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98) <Bas…

When building Accellent v0.3 in Panther, XCode 1.1 returns the following error: Undefined symbols: _CGSMainConnectionID FyKnight says that he is rewriting Accellent to avoid this …