On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:56, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > 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.
At least two reasons: MMX and MTRR. Even without those, the G3/366 should do 15-20, which is quite remarkable. > And a 500 or 600 should be able to go all the way. My words. ;) > 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. Even if it doesn't use those features, it most definitely uses DMA and AGP a lot more than we currently can. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
