[MPlayer-users] G3 Wallstreet/466 redux

[larrystotler at netscape.net]

I re-installed openSuSE v10.0 on my Wallstreet.  I then re-compiled all 
my codecs and MPlayer, but this time I didn't install and compile YASM. 
  Video playback improved, but it still not up to par.  I still get the 
"Your system is too slow to play this message!" unless I add -framedrop 
to the command line.  The video is closer to being smooth, but not 
quite.  I have a B&W(Blue and White) G3 system with a G4/400 in it, 
running openSuSE v10.1.  The B&W system has a 100Mhz bus whereas the 
Wallstreet is 66Mhz.  They use the same MPC106 chipset.  The B&W also 
has a 66Mhz PCI slot with a Rage128 video card.  Video playback was 
just fine on it.  I tried swapping in an old RageII card(similar to the 
Wallstreet's onboard RageLT) to see if it was the video bottlenecking 
the system(doubt it, but....) but the system kept locking up(had that 
problem before until I got the Rage128).  I don't have a G3/400 to swap 
to test(yet, I am looking since I need one for another system) to see 
if the G3/400 would run ok like the G4/400.  I did not install YASM on 
the B&W either.

The G3 does not have Altivec(like SSE) like the G4 does.  It does have 
1MB of back-side 1/2 speed L2 cache.  However, I have run on a Celeron 
400Mhz with smooth playback of XviD and MPEG2 files, so I'm, thinking 
there is something missing.  Does anyone know of a good assembly system 
for the PowerPC like Nasm(the Netwide Assembler) that works?  I have 
seen packages of YASM and Nasm for the ppc, but my experience with YASM 
isn't encouraging(I used the newest source) since it worked better 
without it.

Also, with the Wallstreet I am limited to the onboard soud device, 
"PowerMac Screamer" sound device while the B&W uses the "PowerMac 
Burgandy".  Both systems used the snd_powermac kernel module.

I am further limited to openSuSE v10.0 on the Wallstreet because they 
broke support for the "OId World" Macs with v10.1, so maybe a newer 
version of GCC would help as well.

Thanx