[MPlayer-dev-eng] proposed new codecs.conf [Re: new video codec selection code]

Mike Melanson melanson at pcisys.net
Mon Mar 18 23:57:44 CET 2002


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-2] Gábor Lénárt wrote:

> > 2) what is altivec
> 
> Dunno, sounds like an old russian hoover ...

	AltiVec is Motorola's answer to MMX/SSE/3DNow! technologies. It's
available on PowerPC G4 processors. It features a register file of 32
128-bit registers and a set of 160 instructions to perform on them. Read
all about it at:
  http://altivec.org/

--
	-Mike Melanson




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