Re: running DVD's on an imac dv
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 09:22, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>
> ok im trying to run dvds on my imac dv.
> its a 450, with 384 mb ram. running debian (unstested)
>
> in macos9.2.2 dvds ran beautifully. but in linux
> with mplayer they are watchable but not what i was
> hoping for.
Mac OS uses MPEG hardware acceleration features of the graphics chip we
can't use for lack of information, and the CPU is probably too slow to
do it all in software.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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