[Ffmpeg-devel] int vs. float: Hard Numbers

[Mike Melanson]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> For multimedia?  Not really.  Many codecs do not work since you cannot
> load binary DLLs and a few others have horrible performance like AC3.  I
> cannot watch DVDs on my 1.5GHz G4 since liba52 takes around 90% CPU...

	Ouch... though to be fair, none of these complaints fault the PPC 
specifically. The AC-3, well, it sounds like something was implemented 
incorrectly.

	For a fascinating comparison of x86 vs. PPC for multimedia purposes, 
check out some articles from a few months ago about porting Doom III to 
PPC. Performance problems abounded on the PPC.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson