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author gabucino
date Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:47:23 +0000
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7 "Hardware acceleration" usually means hardware YUV conversion, scaling, 7 "Hardware acceleration" usually means hardware YUV conversion, scaling,
8 bilinear filtering. Under Linux, there are several ways to access it: 8 bilinear filtering. Under Linux, there are several ways to access it:
9 9
10 I. The Xv (XVideo) extension of XFree86 4.0.2 10 I. The Xv (XVideo) extension of XFree86 4.0.2
11 I.1. Card-specific notes/settings
11 II. OpenGL drivers with glTexSubImage() support 12 II. OpenGL drivers with glTexSubImage() support
12 III. Native card-specific drivers, using special abilities of some cards 13 III. Native card-specific drivers, using special abilities of some cards
13 IV. DGA - direct graphic access. no YUV & scaling, but faster than raw X11 14 IV. DGA - direct graphic access. no YUV & scaling, but faster than raw X11
14 V. Not really acceleration, but... 15 V. Not really acceleration, but...
15 16
63 (...etc...) 64 (...etc...)
64 65
65 It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be 66 It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be
66 usable with MPlayer. 67 usable with MPlayer.
67 68
68 If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're 69 I.1.
69 sure your card can do YUV conversion, 70 a, If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're
71 sure your card can do YUV conversion,
70 - 3dfx voodoo3/banshee users download a new DRI from 72 - 3dfx voodoo3/banshee users download a new DRI from
71 http://dri.sourceforge.net 73 http://dri.sourceforge.net (or possibly use X 4.1.0)
72 - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 74 - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 (4.1.0 preferred)
73 - nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from 75 - nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from
74 nVidia's website 76 nVidia's website
77 b, The GATOS driver (for ATI cards) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means
78 that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If
79 playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh
80 rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.
75 81
76 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say: 82 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say:
77 Checking for Xv ... yes 83 Checking for Xv ... yes
78 84
79 6. If all is fine, try the option '-vo xv' . It should work. 85 6. If all is fine, try the option '-vo xv' . It should work.