I notice that some media players seem to have altivec acceleration, e.g. 
mpalyer, videolan. Is it correct to say you need gcc 3 to take advantage of 
altivec acceleration under linux?

cheers

matthew

On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:20:37 -0500
Shawn Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org wrote:
> 
> >Do you use devfs ? Do you use scsi emulation for your cd-burner with
> >cdrecord ? 
> >
> I installed devfsd (still not entirely sure if I needed to)  and now, I 
> can play dvds, as root, in both mplayer and ogle.
> 
> It is too slow, as I read in other's posts -- so I'm going to try 
> getting videolan (I read it works well)
> 
> Thanks again for everyone's help!
> -Shawn
> 
> >  
> >
> 
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