Re: running debian on a mac laptop
On Nov 03 2002, K. Reid Wightman wrote:
> No big troubles playing dvd's on mine. Really really crazy stuff
> like Run Lola Run (lots of the camera getting jerked around and
> floating) makes it drop the ocassional frame, but all in all its
> pretty good.
Well, seeing as yours is an iBook 700MHz with 512KB of cache,
I would think that it would indeed have a much better time
trying to decode DVDs than mine, an iBook 600MHz with 256KB of
cache.
My iBook *almost* plays some DVDs without dropping frames the
way they are. But the problem is that as *all* DVDs I have are
interlaced, when I enable xine's linearblend deinterlacer, I
start to get about 20% of frames dropped.
The linearblend deinterlacer isn't very good because I coded
it in plain C for xine istead of using PPC asm (I don't think
that I will have some free time until I finish my Master's
thesis -- hopefully in the 1st quarter of next year).
So, if anybody could code something better, I'd love to
experiment that.
Oh, BTW, I got better results when I used Michel Daenzer's
XFree86 4.2 binaries, which included a hack that made xine
play the DVDs in some cases with 0 dropped frames (again,
without enabling the deinterlacer).
> There were some decoder improvements a while back I think...
I'm not updated on these, but I'll check xine again as soon as
they have a new release.
[]s, Roger...
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