On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:17:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:14:39PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third > > of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be > > improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well > > enough for smooth DVD playback. > > Are there people actively working on this? The mood I was getting was > that G3's weren't work the trouble. I myself don't have much in the way > of PowerPC assembly brains, or video processing mojo. Don't listen to the nay-sayers.
A PII/266 with a Rage128(not pro) can sustain 20fps on DVDs under Linux. There is no good reason a G3/366 can't do the same. And a 500 or 600 should be able to go all the way. That is just using the hardware colorspace, not even using iDCT or motion comp. I have my doubts that Apple is even using those features, because if you try to play a DVD under OS9 or OSX it will make the system unusable. You watch the DVD and that's all you do. Might just be playing scheduling tricks though. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ (oO) /||\ C'thulhu for President - NOT the lesser of two evils!