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2 Videocards with hardware acceleration: | |
3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
4 | |
5 * read DOCS/MTRR too! | |
6 | |
7 "Hardware acceleration" usually means hardware YUV conversion, scaling, | |
141 | 8 bilinear filtering. Under Linux, there are several ways to access it: |
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146 | 10 I. The Xv (XVideo) extension of XFree86 4.0.2 |
144 | 11 II. OpenGL drivers with glTexSubImage() support (currently the Utah-GLX |
12 drivers) | |
13 III. Native card-specific drivers, using special abilities of some cards | |
14 IV. DGA - direct graphic access. no YUV & scaling, but faster than raw X11 | |
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15 V. Not really acceleration, but... |
141 | 16 |
144 | 17 Now, let's see them in details: |
141 | 18 |
144 | 19 I. Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, using the XVideo extension: |
141 | 20 this is what the option '-vo xv' uses. |
21 | |
22 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following: | |
23 | |
144 | 24 1. You use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo) |
141 | 25 |
144 | 26 2. Your card actually supports harware acceleration (modern cards do) |
141 | 27 |
140 | 28 3. X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: |
29 (II) Loading extension XVideo | |
30 in /var/log/XFree86.0.log | |
144 | 31 NOTE : this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is |
140 | 32 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is |
33 loaded! | |
141 | 34 |
144 | 35 4. Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the |
141 | 36 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar |
37 to this: | |
140 | 38 |
39 X-Video Extension version 2.2 | |
40 screen #0 | |
41 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
42 number of ports: 1 | |
43 port base: 43 | |
44 operations supported: PutImage | |
45 supported visuals: | |
46 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
47 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
48 number of attributes: 5 | |
144 | 49 (...) |
50 Number of image formats: 7 | |
51 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
52 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
53 bits per pixel: 16 | |
54 number of planes: 1 | |
55 type: YUV (packed) | |
56 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
57 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
58 bits per pixel: 12 | |
59 number of planes: 3 | |
60 type: YUV (planar) | |
140 | 61 (...etc...) |
141 | 62 |
63 It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be | |
64 usable with MPlayer. | |
65 | |
140 | 66 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say: |
67 Checking for Xv ... yes | |
141 | 68 |
140 | 69 6. If all is fine, try the option '-vo xv' . It should work. |
70 (if it doesn't, send us a bugreport. See the README on how to do this.) | |
71 | |
72 | |
141 | 73 II. OpenGL drivers with *working* *fast* glTexSubImage() support. |
140 | 74 |
141 | 75 Currently only the old Utah-GLX drivers (for X 3.3.6) have it. |
76 See http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for details about how to install it. | |
77 | |
78 The new X4/DRI and nVidia's binary drivers has no usable glTexSubImage :( | |
79 | |
144 | 80 III. Native card-specific drivers |
141 | 81 |
144 | 82 There is 3 native drivers for Linux: |
141 | 83 1. Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) support -> mga_vid kernel drv. |
84 It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and it has hardware VSYNC support | |
85 with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X. | |
86 | |
87 To use, simply compile the mga_vid.o in the drivers/ subdir (type: make) | |
88 and load it with insmod mga_vid.o. You should verify the memory size | |
89 detection using the 'dmesg' command. If it's bad, use the mga_ram_size | |
90 option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's memory size in MB: | |
274 | 91 insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16 |
141 | 92 |
93 Using it from MPlayer: (you should re-compile it with mga_vid support...) | |
94 | |
95 Use the 'mga' vo driver on framebuffer console (matroxfb): -vo mga | |
96 and use the xmga driver for X 3.3.x: -vo xmga | |
97 | |
146 | 98 Note: it works under X 4.0.2 too, but it conflicts with the Xv driver, |
141 | 99 so avoid using both. Usually X restart or reboot needs to get Xv usable |
100 again :( | |
101 | |
102 2. SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver | |
103 Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver | |
104 was not updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. | |
105 Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. | |
106 | |
107 3. 3dfx (which ones?) YUV+scaler support, using /dev/3dfx (tdfx.o driver?) | |
108 The /dev/3dfx kernel driver exists only for 2.2.x kernels, for use with | |
144 | 109 Glide 2.x Linux ports. It's not tested with MPlayer, and so no more |
141 | 110 supported. Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. |
140 | 111 |
112 | |
141 | 113 IV. If your card lacks hardware acceleration, you can still boost your fps by |
114 using the DGA driver: | |
140 | 115 |
116 1. Make sure X loads the DGA extension: | |
117 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA | |
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118 (you see, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED!) |
140 | 119 2. MPlayer's DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it |
120 with --enable-dga. | |
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121 3. If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with |
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122 switches -vm (only with X 3.0.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that |
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123 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :( |
140 | 124 4. Install MPlayer SUID root. |
144 | 125 'chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer' |
126 'chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer' | |
127 'chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer' | |
128 Now it works as a simple user, too. | |
129 !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!! | |
130 This is a BIG security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer | |
131 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
132 privilegies through suid root mplayer. | |
133 !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!! | |
140 | 134 5. Use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:) |
135 | |
141 | 136 If you have fast enough CPU (P3 800 for example) you can try fsdga for |
137 fullscreen mpeg playing (using software YUV->RGB scaling): | |
138 mplayer -vo fsdga ... | |
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141 V. Not really acceleration, but... |
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143 a, If you don't have X... |
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144 ...use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the -fs switch, since it |
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145 toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's SLOOOW now, unless you |
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146 have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :( |
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148 Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in |
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149 order for MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be |
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150 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your |
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151 card & monitor. |
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154 b, You want to use framebuffer... |
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155 ... Use --enable-fbdev switch of ./configure and the FBdev target will be |
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156 built (don't forget to 'make distclean' first!). Yet another "don't forget" : |
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157 read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources |
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158 (Documentation/fb/*) ! |
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446 | 160 ... but your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
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161 cards, such as S3 Trio64) : |
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162 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display |
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163 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or |
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164 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;)) |
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141 | 168 Gabucino & A'rpi |
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