On 4 Jan 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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> > And can anybody help with some questions that I have regarding
> > the new iBooks? Are the 600MHz ones sufficient to play DVDs
> > under Debian (say, with xine or vlc)? I've read that both
> > programs currently work with altivec, but is altivec strictly
> > necessary for playing DVDs with PPCs?
>
> No, I think the 600 MHz iBook should do it. I think there have been some
> posts confirming this.
Hmmm, I have already played DVDs using OS X on such an iBook.
With xine, DVD streams from hd work fine, but I still get a few dropped
frames (~14 out of 200) playing an encrypted DVD with dvdnav/libdvdcss.
> > P.S.: It's also nice that mplayer can be compiled on PPC (well, at
> > least 0.60pre2 could -- I don't know about 0.60 final :-) ). So, DivX
> > movies can be played with a Mac running Debian. :-)
>
> xine can do that too, and you don't even have to build it yourself.
Right. And it even produces nicer video than the openDivX plugin for
Quicktime/OS X ;-)
Cheers,
Siggi
