On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:23:41AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > the main attraction might be that intel(amd etc) hardware is > generally cheaper. the ffmpeg codec also seems to perform better > on x86. cheaper is not relevant when you have powerpc hardware already, and i doubt any x86 out there could beat properly altivec-optimized ffmpeg code. Friendly, Sven Luther