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Yuvi · 2006-11-23, 15:22

Heh, this talk of ancient Macs actually got me to dig out my old 500 MHz iBook, mainly because I was curious exactly how well Perian worked on G3s. And it turns out it works quite a bit better on that old G3 than DivX, 3ivx, or VLC (it was actually close to playing Ayu's The Third w/out framedrops, and had no trouble with some older fansubs.) MPlayer might beat it since it isn't limited by QuickTime's OpenGL rendering implementation (which seemingly can't send planar YUV 4:2:0 data to the GPU, instead needing a conversion to packed 4:2:2 in CPU), but neither the official pre-8 build nor Andiyar's build worked whatsoever, and my interest isn't enough to try compiling it myself on such a slow machine.

Also, speaking of OS 9 compatibility, DivX 5.1.1 was the last version of DivX to work on OS 9, and could open AVIs directly w/out DivX doctor. Of course, that version pre-dated XviD support (though 3ivx should handle that) and isn't officially offered anymore...

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Yuvi Alternative User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near the ocean	Heh, this talk of ancient Macs actually got me to dig out my old 500 MHz iBook, mainly because I was curious exactly how well Perian worked on G3s. And it turns out it works quite a bit better on that old G3 than DivX, 3ivx, or VLC (it was actually close to playing Ayu's The Third w/out framedrops, and had no trouble with some older fansubs.) MPlayer might beat it since it isn't limited by QuickTime's OpenGL rendering implementation (which seemingly can't send planar YUV 4:2:0 data to the GPU, instead needing a conversion to packed 4:2:2 in CPU), but neither the official pre-8 build nor Andiyar's build worked whatsoever, and my interest isn't enough to try compiling it myself on such a slow machine. Also, speaking of OS 9 compatibility, DivX 5.1.1 was the last version of DivX to work on OS 9, and could open AVIs directly w/out DivX doctor. Of course, that version pre-dated XviD support (though 3ivx should handle that) and isn't officially offered anymore...