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

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 21:02, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is:
> 
> http://www.ati.com/na/pages/corporate/press/2000/4280.html
> 
> a bunch of hot air, then?  :(

'The ATI VHA Software Development Kit will be available for use by
recognized software developers from March 2000 onwards through the ATI
Registered Developer Program, and comprises an MPEG-2 accelerated driver
and sample code for MPEG-2 playback. Although the sample code will be
released open source, the MPEG-2 driver will be released in binary
format in order to maintain DVD security.'


XFree86 developers might pass as 'recognized', but whether they would
provide PPC binaries...

I wonder what happened to Loki's efforts of supporting this in SMPEG
though?


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast