vlc 0.2.90 observations on ppc

Jeffrey W. Baker jwbaker at acm.org
Sat Oct 13 01:01:17 CEST 2001



On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Christophe Massiot wrote:
> Since you're using Xvideo, you don't use software YUV. So none. But
> some routines still needs to be Altivec-enabled, for instance imdct
> and downmix in the AC3 decoder...

Do you think this work is worth the effort?  VLC plays at full rate on the
slowest G4 processors.  Additional Altivec code is gravy.

-jwb





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