[x264-devel] Re: x264 improvement

[Eric Petit]

Firas Al-Tahan wrote:
> As I said, I'm no guru or Altivec programmer - but I really want to
> get my hands dirty this summer in Altivec and x264. I'd like to make a
> G5 multi-processor/multi-core only version that really makes the G5
> shine.

  FYI, multi-threaded encoding already works

> I'm going to be busy till after May - just quickly, are there any good
> PPC and Altivec books out there that you'd recommend? Some of the
> resources Google is bringing up are dated and aren't available - a
> worying sign!

  I've only used Apple's ressources 
(http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/). For x264 specifically, you 
might spare yourself some time by looking at the x86 MMX/SSE code, since 
the corresponding AltiVec code may be, in essence, very similar.

-- 
Eric

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