What fraction of work is iDCT?

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Eugenio Jarosiewicz wrote:

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> (Jeff: I'm cc'ing you as I don't know if you're on the list)
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> Ok, so someone else who knows more about this than me already gave you
> some #'s.  But of quite interest might be:
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> Altivec IDCT sample plus much more...
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> http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/examples.html
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> http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/
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> ( I wish I had done a more completesearch earlier )
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> Jeff - have you taken a look this?  I'm very interested about getting
> this into VLC for OSX and ppc in general.  I don't know much about
> vector processing but the concept seems fairly straightforward.

These are the routines I have plugged into VLC.  I am having a problem
though that keeps me from testing it.  When I start VLC, it simply reads
the blocks off the DVD as quickly as it can, without playing any video.  I
haven't had a chance to debug this problem, and I think it is unrelated to
the vectorized IDCT.  It may be related to the new firmware Apple
downloaded ont my DVD-ROM, but Xine still works OK.

Still, nobody told me wether 377,000 IDCT iterations per second is fast or
not.

-jwb