Re: vlc 0.2.82 debs available
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote:
>
> Now, I think you need around 500 floating point-operations to compute an
> 8x8 IDCT (I believe the actual figure is something like this.). DVD video is
> 720x576, so you'd need to sustain around 100 megaflops/sec in the IDCT
> alone to be able to play video smoothly. Based on that figure, I think
> software-only decoding *might* possible on a 500 Mhz g3, but it'd have to
> be pretty tightly optimized. It'd be nice if ATI would release
> documentation on the hardware IDCT and motion comp features of the Rage
> 128 chip...
>
Are you sure? Because things seem to play pretty well on my 400 MHz iMac.
Not that extra hardware help isn't wanted...
Adam
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