#VLC MEDIA PLAYER FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 DRIVERS#
And yes, that the drivers are closed doesn't help, but it would probably be a lot easier for driver and application authors if they didn't have to worry about each other, or the X/Mesa/Gallium/DRM mess in between. The point is that there's no really good way to seamlessly handle even low-bitrate and/or trivially-compressed video on a large range of cards without artifacts, stuttering or tearing because the API situation is terrifically bad. Watching the progress on X/DRM/Mesa and the various drives is impressive and they've made great strides, but posts that talk about compiling in support for a piece of hardware into a player and/or getting bleeding-edge drivers and/or turning off things like compositing are the wrong way to address the problem. I don't want to seem as if I'm coming down on the people doing some very, very good work on this. Video on Linux makes the current Audio on Linux clusterf_ck look simple by comparison it's an unacceptable state of affairs for what is a very important consumer-level aspect of computing.
There's something seriously wrong when I can watch, say, YouTube content or a simple video file on an Intel Atom-based netbook running Windows and it plays more smoothly than on a Xeon 5520-equipped workstation running Linux.
#VLC MEDIA PLAYER FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 CODE#
That's akin to having to code applications to support SoundBlaster or AdLib cards, which, I feel the need to point out, was the case in the late 1980s. I know it's supposedly getting better, but there's still no unified video acceleration API, it looks like nVidia and ATI are going to propose competing (VDPAU, XvBA) standards, and it looks like players are going to need to know about them in order to get reasonable performance. On Linux, it's a crapshoot, completely dependent on the player, video card, window manager and version of X and/or video drivers. If I use VLC on a Macintosh or Windows machine, I can play back content without skipping, sync, artifacts, tearing or stuttering as long as it's within reasonable processing limits. Video on non-MacOS/Windows is in an awful state, even when using the same player. You shoudn't have to compile in support for a given piece of hardware into a player: this is why we have things called "drivers" and "APIs". Saying "well, you can just compile in support for _" shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age.
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