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Does anyone know the status of DSP/GPU acceleration on OS X? What's the minimum specs to support it (if it's supported at all)?

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Assuming it's using the same API that Adobe use (which I believe is true. Actually looks like they plan this for VLC 1.2, not this release):

The new video acceleration API is only available in Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later and is limited to GPUs models such as NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M. For more details you can look at Apple’s technote. Here is a list of the Mac models currently supported:

    * MacBooks shipped after January 21st, 2009
    * Mac Minis shipped after March 3rd, 2009
    * MacBook Pros shipped after October 14th, 2008
    * iMacs which shipped after the first quarter of 2009

(Mac Pros are not supported as of today)

from http://blog.kaourantin.net/?p=89

Too bad, my old 12" ppc powerbook is still OK for my usage except for some video (actually I have to use an old realease of mplayer).

We have a patch, but not tested enough... Maybe in 1.1.1 or in 1.2.0

According to the changelog, the GPU accelleration only comprises H.264 decoding on Vista/7 and Linux. http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

So... no OS X speedups yet.

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