[MPlayer-dev-eng] TODO (mplayer on PPC)

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> 
> > As I remenber - you wrote that you can't run X11 on PPC, isn't?
> > Which graphics server do you use on PPC?
> > It seems that mplayer works there!
> > In this connexion what stop you port libdha/vidix on PPC?
> 
> 	I have a rather old and not terribly powerful PPC machine (180MHz
> 603e chip, as I recall). I've just never really invested enough time in
> getting an X server to work, though I'm pretty sure it would work.

Also there are framebuffer drivers for Mac (ls -la linux/drivers/video/)
You should test them (if interested).

> Whenever I test the MPlayer video, I output to the PNG target. And
> whenever I output frames from a Cinepak video, the color is messed up.

Also, have you tested if vo_png is working right? I think your problem is
BGR/RGB endianess related.

> 
> 	However, I was thinking of getting one of those new-fangled
> iMacs in the near future (next few months). Then I'll really be able to
> see what MPlayer can do on the PPC platform.

What about optimizing for Altivec? :)

> 
> --
> 	-Mike Melanson