2008-05-03, 05:43
Plantain Wrote:FWIW, I can playback 720p x264 on my iBook G4.
Compiling all the necessary stuff yourself with Alti-vec addons _really_ makes a difference (Gentoo Linux)
No hope under OS X though, I get about 6fps with VLC.
Anywho, the moral of the story is - PPC isn't dead!
If we're ever going to see XBMC on the Xbox 360 (Or better yet, the PS3), we need a PowerPC port.
I gave it a go once, only to find significant portions of the codebase have been converted to assembly needlessly? I found myself spending hours trying to figure out a piece of assembly was doing (was usually something silly like printf :/)
There is no doubt that GENTOO rocks! But that is just the thing. REAL POWER UNDER LINUX! I love my old apples, But you know, somtimes i think OSX runs better inside of a shell (Like in yellow dog Linux) then it does all by itself. WEIRD BUT TRUE! So it begs to wonder, Why is all this power not built in from the start? Simple. New machines = $$$ and the new XGRID softwafre encorages you to buy more Macs to do your work. Cool, But as you see, It all adds up to purchasing more to get more, Not maxamising what you got, . Sad but true. Xgrid is great at computing nymbersa and doing video transcoding, But might not help to much just to play video...Wish it did.