On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Now, I think you need around 500 floating point-operations to compute an > 8x8 IDCT (I believe the actual figure is something like this.). DVD video is > 720x576, so you'd need to sustain around 100 megaflops/sec in the IDCT > alone to be able to play video smoothly. Based on that figure, I think > software-only decoding *might* possible on a 500 Mhz g3, but it'd have to > be pretty tightly optimized. It'd be nice if ATI would release > documentation on the hardware IDCT and motion comp features of the Rage > 128 chip... >
Are you sure? Because things seem to play pretty well on my 400 MHz iMac. Not that extra hardware help isn't wanted... Adam
