Björn Johansson wrote:
Well, I have a 600MHz G3 AmigaOne, and I'm not all that happy with the DVD playing facilities I've tried so far. On the other hand, I used to have crappy performance on the 2.2GHz P4 as well, so it might just be lack of optimization in MPlayer for our CPU. Or it might be a problem with my drivers...Hi! I'm going to buy a Mac in a not far away future. So I'm wondering what Macs works best with Debian3.0? How about this one? 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen 800 MHz PowerPC G3 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz) 256 MB SDRAM-memory 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit DVD/CD-RW-unit ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32 MB graphic mem 10/100BASE-T Ethernet Internal 56K-modem AirPort-ready I also would like know if this Mac has enough horsepower to be able to display DVD:s with good quality.
I just tried to use VIDIX as output on the P4, and XFree86 cpu usage dropped from 20% to virtually nill. However, mplayer upped from 16 to 35%, so I'm not quite sure what the "benefit" is supposed to be ;-)
But like Benjamin wrote, Apple has access to more information about the chipsets (since they actually buy a lot of chips it's quite natural, really) than Linux / XFree86 has, so don't expect a perfect solution just yet :-(