Re: [xine-user] Xine on Apple IBook2/Yellow Dog Linux

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Rog=E9rio Brito wrote:

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> =09Owww... If you had a model with a DVD, then I'd be very
> =09curious if you were able to get it working decoding DVDs
> =09without frame skips.

Not quite. It could probably work on a Ti-book/667, or alternatively when
someone implements hardware support for motion compensation in
libmpeg2. That's a _big_ task, however...

> =09My iBook 600/combo (already patched for RPC-2) does skip about
> =0920% of the frames when playing DVDs.

Mine skips an average of ~34 frames from 200 (~17%), running Debian
GNU/Linux on a 2.4.17-ben0 kernel.
It's quite irritating if you're used to checking video quality, but still
viewable. Some people even don't realize it...

> =09It's been quite a while since I played with the iBook under
> =09Linux, but I also remember that xine crashed, segfaulted or
> =09something similar when I tried to enable anti-aliasing (just
> =09to see what would happen). It complained that anti-aliasing
> =09is only available with computers with mmx instructions. :-(

You mean deinterlacing, right?
Yup, that requires MMX for reasons I don't understand...
It would slow things down even more, though.

> =09I'm using Debian woody/testing.

Dito.

Cheers,
=09Siggi