If read the changelog here, you will see this line:


It works great!

Is it fast? Can you play HD stuff on a Pegasos for instance?

Quite old news, btw now we have also vp6 for those flash video addicted.

(wmv3 is also altivec optimized, so isn't running that bad)

:)

If only it weren't so difficult to find a package in whatever distro you run, and could just find a really fancy sample video to prove it works..

*sigh*

And if the video formats weren't patent encumbered we could ship this on a Genesi box instead of only showing it at some show..

Matt,


(you may unmask xine or mplayer the same way)

(soon I'll add a newer snapshot with vp6)

Absolutely.


It shouldn't be that hard. It seems most WMV videos are WMV8 or 9 now.

Without DRM? :)

lu_zero: I'm sure it is easy on Gentoo. However I am stuck with Ubuntu here. It is the worst thing ever for trying out brand new things, but of course it is rock solid stable every day :)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... wcase.aspx

This is where people should be going to test the codec out. If it plays every one then it will be fantastic.

Good point. :)

>Can you play HD stuff on a Pegasos for instance?

Sure, just give us that 1.7 GHz 7447A... :?

I nearly succeeded playing a 720p 24fps XVID AC3 trailer (King Kong).

I'm not sure you need it :)



Linux or MorphOS?

We've always seen that where Linux really struggles and DOES need all that hardware requirement to play video (there is a huge overhead in kernel/userspace switching, the bulk of X11, video overlay support not being so fancy), if you play the same thing on MorphOS you rarely have a problem.

It just goes to show that if anyone ever makes a video playing media center out of one of our systems (perhaps an Efika-derived iTV experiment :) it will run MorphOS because we can drag ALL of the performance out of ALL the components, and not have Linux sitting there, in-between and in-the-way.

Also does a media center really need bash? :)

Learn how things work before issuing such claims....

FYI: cvidix directly writes on the video memory in case you want it, xvmc uses the gpu idct/mc features offloading the cpu, just in case isn't the bandwidth between the cpu and vram the bottleneck, you can run mplayer as process 1 cutting everything in the middle, you can put it in the RR schedule having it run realtime, you can use quite granular sleep setting the HZ to an insanely high value, if you want precision, you can use filesystem tailored for multimedia.


Please do not claim something that is blatant false.

lu_zero

I dont think Neko was doing anything "blatantaly false" ...

Does XVMC work with PPC properly? I will say Morphos is WAY faster than ANY platform for viewing video content, its the way the system is written and the way it accesses the graphics card and overlay..

magnetic

>I'm not sure you need it

What does this mean?

>Linux or MorphOS?

MorphOS...

The machines very much struggled with 60fps 720p material though,
so there is every reason a 1.7 Ghz 7447A would be beneficial.