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. Ffmpeg does quiet well with altivec optimations, without that it's rather slow, but same is true for i386 without SSE or similar. Cheers, -- Guido