[mythtv-users] Re:Nupplevideo, why?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Jul 7 12:58:47 EDT 2003


On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Brian Foddy wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Cedar McKay wrote:
> > >  The only thing standing in
> > > the way of a Windows (or OSX, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc) Myth frontend
> > > is the
> > > dedication of someone to write it.  The formats and protocols are open
> > > for
> > > inspection.  (Of course, a free version of Qt/Windows would help...)
> >
> > a  GPL version of QT/mac was just released so I'm crossing my fingers
> > that someone with the ability to sort out the endian issues will do a
> > (hopefully quick and easy) frontend port to OS X
>
> That's the easy part.  Rewritting all the MMX and SSE assembly code
> into the equiv PPC instructions is probably much more work.  Remember
> the only reason this app performs the way it does is because of these
> parts.  In straight C, it will take a lot more horsepower.

libavcodec already has quite a few ppc optimizations.

Isaac


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