On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 09:06 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 16 2009, drz wrote: > > Am Samstag 16 Mai 2009 09:59:50 schrieb Rogério Brito: > > > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/480p/gilmour_480p.mov > > > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/720p/gilmour_720p.mov > > > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/1080p/gilmour_1080p.mov > > > > 1080p is not viewable here (with compiz activated, didnt try without, > > graphics > > hardware see below)
IME you won't be able to really enjoy any kind of HD (i.e. 720 or 1080) content on a G4 800 MHz iBook. > > > Another question: is a Radeon 7500 mobility with 32MB of VRAM able to > > > use compiz and similars? > > > > I guess this will be a little too less for compiz, but I dont really > > know. > > I have something in the back of my memory of Michel Dänzer saying the > memory consumption of DRI 1 a loooong time ago. This excluded my 8MB > Rage 128 M3, unless I used 16 bits per pixel (which, at the time, as a > side effect enabled DMA for XV, which was my main purpose, as I was > interested in playing DVDs with my iBook G3 600MHz). > > OTOH, not too long ago, I reported that my Matrox G400 16MB wouldn't run > Ubuntu's compiz and the reply that I received back was that 16MB was too > little memory. :-/ That's kind of oversimplified, but generally I'd say that compiz should basically work with the iBook you're considering, though it may be a little tight depending on what exactly you're doing. > The opportunity that I have is to purchase an iBook G4 800MHz. As I have > never used a machine with Altivec before, I don't know how it would be > useful for playing, say, DVDs with de-interlacing enabled or some MPEG-4 > Part 2 or some H.264 videos. > > Playing such videos would be the most "real time" demanding applications > that I would have. Altivec should help somewhat for video playback, but I wouldn't expect any miracles from it. > Others would be to compile things for Debian. Altivec doesn't help at all for this. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
