Re: PowerBook G4
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 04:17, P Prince wrote:
> 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.
I know, it contains the code I wrote. It's in XFree86 and DRI CVS too.
> It is much better.
How so? Last time I looked, there wasn't any real difference besides
very i386 centric code for video in and TV out and whatnot which isn't
any use for us.
> > 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.
Hmm, maybe I'm missing that? I tried it with an unencrypted DVD though.
Are you using the Debian packages?
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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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