On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 19:40, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > MD> It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third > MD> of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be > MD> improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well > MD> enough for smooth DVD playback. > MD> > > Wouldn't it though not be false marketing (and hence illegal) to claim > that the iBook2-500 can play DVDs when it drop frames? I believe you could > get a court to rule that DVD playback means 0 frame drops.
Which is always the case in MacOS because it uses the graphics chip's iDCT and motion compensation capabilities, which we can't for lack of documentation. Nice try though ;) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
