Re: PowerBook G4
Hey,
On 4 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.
See http://gatos.sf.net/
ati.2 already supports this. It is much better.
> 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.
Yes, Ogle runs fine for me. I love it. None of Xine's goofy UI :P
With libdvdcss, it plays encrypted dvds just fine.
The menu/navigation support rocks, and playback is fast and clean.
This on a Titanium Powerbook, first run, w/ Debian GNU/Linux.
-Tech
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