[MPlayer-users] Mplayer performance on Upgraded PowerBook Wallstreet

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com>

> What? I don't think MPlayer even knows what that chunk 'o hardware is 
(let alone me). MPlayer tends to do >everything in software. The only 
hardware it really uses is XvMC, and that's not supported on ATI cards. 
I'm not >sure OpenGL would work too well for you (and I doubt that 
would have anything to do with this decoder card >you're talking about)

I have read that MPlayer would make use of the hardware MPEG2 decoders 
if available, but I do not have one, and have also seen stuff from 
Googling that say it doesn't seem to use it, so I dunno.

> More than likely, yes. Assuming you have a compiler that does AltiVec 
compiling decently (I've heard some >versions of the GCC don't do so 
well with that).

For some reason, GCC does compile in the altivec.  I also tried 
compiling it with --disable-altivec(saw it on a site somewhere as a 
suggestion) and it made no difference.

> This is really rather odd, given that that G3/466 should outpace your 
PIII/450 by a long shot. It's either serious >code inefficiencies for 
PowerPC, or there's something really unusual with your Wallstreet.

Yeah, but the P-III does have SSE, which AFAIK, MPlayer will use for 
decoding.  Since the Altivec is basically like SSE, maybe that would be 
a difference.  Anyway, thanx for the reply.