Re: iBook questions
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:35:59PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Sep 19 2002, SteveC wrote:
> > 3) Linux seems incapable of playing DVD's at full rate on the
> > ibook, I'm guessing because any assembler optimized routines are for
> > x86. Does anyone play dvd's on their ibook and can show me a good
> > setup? Tried xine / ogle etc in SHM X11 OGL and other modes, no
> > luck.
>
> Well, that's right.
>
> Even if I have XFree86 4.2, with DRI and the XVideo extension
> enabled, I can't get my iBook 2 600MHz playing DVDs without
> dropped frames with xine. I remember that with mplayer, things
> were a bit worse.
>
> Unfortunately, the G3 processors in the iBooks don't have
> altivec, which means that the altivec optimizations of some of
> the mpeg2 libraries don't have any effects on iBooks.
But i think to remember that a discution here some time ago gave the
opinion that you could get some improvement from even g3 level assembly.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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