On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:35:59PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Sep 19 2002, SteveC wrote: > > 3) Linux seems incapable of playing DVD's at full rate on the > > ibook, I'm guessing because any assembler optimized routines are for > > x86. Does anyone play dvd's on their ibook and can show me a good > > setup? Tried xine / ogle etc in SHM X11 OGL and other modes, no > > luck. > > Well, that's right. > > Even if I have XFree86 4.2, with DRI and the XVideo extension > enabled, I can't get my iBook 2 600MHz playing DVDs without > dropped frames with xine. I remember that with mplayer, things > were a bit worse. > > Unfortunately, the G3 processors in the iBooks don't have > altivec, which means that the altivec optimizations of some of > the mpeg2 libraries don't have any effects on iBooks.
But i think to remember that a discution here some time ago gave the opinion that you could get some improvement from even g3 level assembly. Friendly, Sven Luther
