Greg Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> AFAICT, there's no processor-specific optimization in playback at all. >> So if performance is bad on PPC/Darwin, it's probably bad (compared to >> what's possible) on x86/Linux as well. > > The differences is that scalling/display through XV is hardware > accelerated whereas on the PPC it's using Quicktimes ScaleMatrix which > is done in software. According to a Apple Tech I spoke with the other day > that with the right combo of OSX versions and hardware it will be done > in hardware but I didn't get any specifics on what the right combos > are. > >> Ouch, really? Not good news for the MacOS folks. I wonder what about >> the MacOS frontend is sucking so badly? I am running a > > I'd bet money that a large portion of it is the scaling of the video. > If someone with a MAC wants to do research I'm sure a proper solution > could be found, if only so that other MAC frontend users will have > the info when making hardware purchases > >> > So I' can't vouch for possible x86 optimization, but I'm pretty sure >> > the code could be tweaked to run faster on Darwin/PPC. >> >> Can you explain why you are pretty sure of that? > > There is definately better ways to take advantage of the hardware which > isn't being done on the MAC. > > If someone wants to send me one I'd volunteer to work on it :)
I'd be happy to; I have one that's presently gathering dust. What's your address (offline, if you prefer)? The more muscle we can put behind Mac development, the better, as far as I'm concerned. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
