Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 19:40, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> MD> It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third
> MD> of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be
> MD> improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well
> MD> enough for smooth DVD playback.
> MD>
> 
> Wouldn't it though not be false marketing (and hence illegal) to claim
> that the iBook2-500 can play DVDs when it drop frames? I believe you could
> get a court to rule that DVD playback means 0 frame drops.

Which is always the case in MacOS because it uses the graphics chip's
iDCT and motion compensation capabilities, which we can't for lack of
documentation.


Nice try though ;)


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