Dreamcast Media Center

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Re: Dreamcast Media Center

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Hey there man! Thanks for your interest.
I released the source with the project, so you are free to do what you want with it! Just please give me proper credit where due.

The /SD/ card is a bottleneck due to read speed of ~640kbps from my testing back then, it was much faster to stream from /CD/; IIRC I was decoding video at ~1200kbps.
I am curious what kind of read speed is achieved through /HDD/ ?
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Re: Dreamcast Media Center

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PH3NOM wrote:Hey there man! Thanks for your interest.
I released the source with the project, so you are free to do what you want with it! Just please give me proper credit where due.

The /SD/ card is a bottleneck due to read speed of ~640kbps from my testing back then, it was much faster to stream from /CD/; IIRC I was decoding video at ~1200kbps.
I am curious what kind of read speed is achieved through /HDD/ ?
It is said that up to 40 mbps about
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http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/thread-2111-page-6.html

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The only problem is that with the current upgrade Dreamshell is not running homebrew from SD HDD only time , and are working on a new update that will correct this and added some new features like support for software made ​​under Windows CE . While I believe that the support of the SD was unaffected ( as for testing while HDD support is resolved )
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At 40 mbps it should be possible to stream loss-less un-compressed video, just a matter of finding the right resolution to fit that data rate.

It would be interesting to see how much faster my video decoder routine could benefit from the increased input bandwidth.

Problem is I do not have a DC-HDD for testing, and I would suspect that not many people do :o
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PH3NOM wrote:At 40 mbps it should be possible to stream loss-less un-compressed video, just a matter of finding the right resolution to fit that data rate.

It would be interesting to see how much faster my video decoder routine could benefit from the increased input bandwidth.

Problem is I do not have a DC-HDD for testing, and I would suspect that not many people do :o
I specialize in hardware environment mods, but not how it could help you with that since I live in Chile.
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