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Real Magic PCI MPEG-2/DVD Decoder Card - $25 (Auburn)
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Excellent condition, this was always a highly prized card and I took very good care of it. This is a PCI card for IBM PC's and compatibles. Originally bought this card at CompUSA in Syracuse, NY when I worked there are a tech in the early 2000s.
Outputs: VGA, RCA Composite, RCA Component, S-Video
Comes with all cables needed:
- Component Breakout
- CD audio in cable
- standard PC motherboard audio out
- oddball large size motherboard out
Young folks probably do not know this, but for many years computers were not fast enough to reliably play DVD's smoothly. Takes a good deal of computing power to decode DVD video. Today we don't need things like this, but back around 2000 when I bought this card you had to have one if you wanted to enjoy DVDs on a PC. This card works the same way 3D graphics cards do, it offloads the video decoding to the EM8300 video processor on the board, freeing up your CPU to continue running the system. Also decodes MPEG-2 video streams and files.
These were always a difficult card to find, I believe this one was part of a package deal with a new DVD drive.
Public meetup or delivery in Auburn, NY.