On 16 Oct 2001, Michel D�nzer wrote: > Even with Linux, the choice isn't so hard, with a growing amount of > software supporting Altivec. In particular, watching DVDs is certainly > much more of a pleasure on a TiBook now than it will probably ever be on > a G3 Notebook.
Are there any asm optimizations that can be done for speeding up MPEG-2 decoding on a G3? Or is Altivec (and therefore a G4 PowerBook) the only answer? Where's the big performance optimization on MacOS for DVD playback? Is it using the ATI chips' hardware iDCT capability, or asm optimization, or something else? > Also, in contrast to e.g. the sound problems with an iBook2, pretty much > all of the TiBook's hardware is well supported. Well, I am using a FireWire iBook, and just about everything works with it now (FireWire doesn't, and DRI is unstable, but everything else - sound after sleep, volume control, etc. - is working). Of course, it doesn't have a DVD-ROM drive. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN
