Quartz Extreme Demo Movie

Anonymous Coward writes "The Swedish web site MacNytt has a QuickTime demo of Quartz Extreme (the graphics acceleration technology in the upcoming Mac OS X "Jaguar" release). It is impressive footage, truly impressive. Now I can watch DVDs at a microscopic level!"

Comments

Downloaded the movie

[Craig Maloney]

I downloaded the movie, and you can too! Just go through the main page and select the Swedish equivalent of "Films". It's accessable from there.

It's pretty damn impressive. I think we've seen yet another advance in GUI technology from Apple.

Mirrors

[rgraham]

http://members.cox.net/ronin4701/QuartzExtremeTest riktigfil.mov

http://clem.mscd.edu/~grahamry/QuartzExtremeTest ri ktigfil.mov

Re:are screenshots a thing of the past?

[shunnicutt]

The blackout of the DVD has nothing to do with the graphics card -- DVDs are blacked out to prevent people from infringing copyrighted material.

The DVD window isn't actually black -- it's a dark shade of ugly green and the system uses something to replace that with the DVD footage. In OS9, you could set your desktop graphic to this color and play DVDs on your desktop. :)

To confirm that you can take screen shots of graphics that are accelerated in the graphics card, I took a screen shot of iTunes showing a psychedelic animation inside a window. The screen shot shows the openGL graphics as well as the desktop and other windows.

Re:wonderful, *IF* you've got a Radeon or GF2...

[Mononoke]

disappointing and downright rude if you've got 1+ month old iBook, a 5+ month old iMac, or a 9+ month old PowerBook. In other words, the majority of Macs sold in the past year (and 95% of OSX-capable Macs sold before that) cannot use Quartz Extreme.

Yes, how dare Apple develop new technology that utilizes the latest (and future) hardware to its fullest! What were they thinking?!?

That's just like those damn ID Software people that keep putting out new games that make us buy new video cards!

Anyway...one clarification:

the majority of Macs sold in the past year (and 95% of OSX-capable Macs sold before that) cannot use Quartz Extreme.

You forgot "to its fullest extent." Read the Quartz Extreme specs again, and pay special attention to the word 'recommended.' Look it up if you need to.

Zoom Feature

[Anonymous Coward]

The zoom feature is actually one of the new accessabiltiy options for persons with poor eyesight. It is not really related to Quartz Extreme except that its part of the same system update. Jaguar has a whole bunch of neat features for people with impairments

Re:are screenshots a thing of the past?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, the green area is used for video overlay, and the primary purpose is speed.

The lack of screenshot capability is a side-effect of the fact that the video isn't going to the screen through the normal route (but the DVD forum does prevent player companies from working around this).

Re:DVD screengrabs in OSX

[shunnicutt]

Snapz Pro can only grab shots from DVD if you're using an Nvidia card.

Re:wonderful, *IF* you've got a Radeon or GF2...

[singularity]

Yes, how dare Apple develop new technology that utilizes the latest (and future) hardware to its fullest!

Exactly! I am still upset that Apple is adding AltiVec enhancements. If iMacs and iBooks cannot benifit from it, Apple should never start adding it to the OS until every machine offered by Apple has had at least a G4 for at least a year (so as to prevent anyone from yelling "But I just bought my iBook six months ago, and it will not support it!")

/sarcasm

All indications show that Jaguar will offer a speed-up for non-QE capable machines.

Perhaps Apple could have written QE with the Rage Pro in mind. I am guessing doing that would seriously prevent the major speed-up we are going to see instead. Doing so would be ignoring the increased bandwidth offered by AGP 4x and the increased capabilities of having 32 megs of VRAM on-board.

I am glad to see Apple writing software for the future with the past in mind, but not driving development.

Re:Any project for linux ?

[Molz]

You mean a project to convert X11 into an OpenGL stream (which is basicaly what QE does), or do you want Quartz on Linux?

I seriously doubt there is either going on, although the Berlin Project might bring it closer to reality.