Hardware de-interlacing for Mac OS X

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Hardware de-interlacing for Mac OS X

Postby perfectmark » 24 Nov 2003 01:22

Firstly great software, I no longer have to flash my DVD drives if I want to play DVDs from other countries. VLC is now so stable/feature rich, I am using it over WinDVD/PowerDVD on my PC.

I know it says in the readme that it is hard to optimise Videolan for graphics cards on the Mac, but I was wondering what are the chances of hardware de-interlacing for the Mac. I have a PowerBook G4 with a Radeon 7000M. On the PC, the Radeon 7000M supports hardware de-interlacing, so I can only guess it also does on the Mac, it is just for some reason Apple has never including de-interlacing (of any kind) with its DVD player.

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Postby The DJ » 24 Nov 2003 01:29

hardware decoding and deinterlacing are impossible on Mac OS X.
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Postby voodoo » 24 Nov 2003 09:35

hardware decoding and deinterlacing are impossible on Mac OS X.
don't the video cards on Macs support deinterlacing?

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Postby The DJ » 24 Nov 2003 14:56

They do, the OS itself however doesn't allow programs to access it.
The theory is that graphics support on OSX is so advanced and optimized, you don't need to. Of course deinterlacing wasn't taking into consideration when making this decision.
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Postby voodoo » 24 Nov 2003 17:22

They do, the OS itself however doesn't allow programs to access it.
The theory is that graphics support on OSX is so advanced and optimized, you don't need to. Of course deinterlacing wasn't taking into consideration when making this decision.
ah the decision was Steved :mrgreen:

Well, at least we can hope that Steve and co will change this in the future. Even the Apple DVD player doesn't offer deinterlacing. Shame that. (We got labels back despite Steve!)


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