Re: PowerBook G4
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 03:35, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> (...)
> > > And can anybody help with some questions that I have regarding
> > > the new iBooks? Are the 600MHz ones sufficient to play DVDs
> > > under Debian (say, with xine or vlc)? I've read that both
> > > programs currently work with altivec, but is altivec strictly
> > > necessary for playing DVDs with PPCs?
> >
> > No, I think the 600 MHz iBook should do it. I think there have been some
> > posts confirming this.
>
> Hmmm, I have already played DVDs using OS X on such an iBook.
> With xine, DVD streams from hd work fine, but I still get a few dropped
> frames (~14 out of 200) playing an encrypted DVD with dvdnav/libdvdcss.
In my experience vlc seems to be slightly faster, so it could make the
difference, it doesn't yet support navigation though.
XFree86 4.2.0 will also use DMA to transfer the Xv images when DRI is
enabled, which should make for more improvement.
Bottom line: it's gonna be tight.
PS: Has anyone gotten anything but a crash out of ogle yet? Funnily,
xine-dvdnav (which is based on ogle) works.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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