Quadrant CineMaster C 3.0
| Technical details | |
| Name: | CineMaster C 3.0 |
| Company: | Quadrant International |
| Chipset: | C-Cube ZiVA PC |
| Bus: | PCI |
| RAM: | 1 MB SDRAM 10 ns |
| DAC: | Bt865AKPF |
| Connectors: | VESA, S-Video Out, Composite Out, Audio Out |
| PCI-ID: | ? |
| Manufactured: | 1999 |
MPEG2 accelerator card for DVD playback. It renders either through the VESA connector or to Video Out. It includes the Raviscent DVD player.
CineMaster drivers
DVD playback quality comparison with brief footage from The Fifth Element DVD:
My notes:
System used:
P2 233 MHz on i440LX chipset.
Voodoo3 3000 AGP, Quadrant CineMaster C3.0, SB16
graphics mode 1024x768x32 bit
The CineMaster card uses a VESA feature connector cable for rendering to the graphics cards framebuffer.
It didn't seem to work on a Matrox G200A (crashed in 24 Bit and reportet unuseable mode for 16 and 32 bit color depth)
Audio was routed from the CineMasters analog Audio-Out to SB16s Line-In.
Still you will hear a difference compared to the Malibu daughterboard f.e.
DVD Menu seems to be slightly corrupted on top. Crackling of Audio in the Menu is gone if the movie starts.
Tried also Serenity DVD, where Menu is also corrupted and showing just a few scanlines on top.
Audio does not crackle in menu here.
If it works the video quality is better than with the other solutions.
The card uses I/O and an IRQ.
