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10000l, the old code was slow as hell, copying stuff extra times and
actually broken -- blanking the whole screen at each 'page flip' with
-dr enabled. benchmarks:
before:
56% cpu for decode
56% cpu for vo with no -dr
25% cpu for vo with -dr
after:
56% cpu for decode
25% cpu for vo without -dr
0% cpu for vo with -dr
if vo_fbdev is going to do pageflip, it needs to do it for REAL, using
vertical scroll registers (like g2), not copying a temp buffer (which
will shear anyway and is super-slow).
author | rfelker |
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date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:24:24 +0000 |
parents | 50ec8b9699c4 |
children | 57c11c567f77 |
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lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library ======================================= This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent. The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving). For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported as working' list (these platforms are used daily): Linux/x86 FreeBSD/x86 NetBSD/x86 Linux/PPC There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that. With root privileges libdha will finely run, but there are some others ways to use it as a normal user: 1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root priviliges) 2, use svgalib kernel helper 3, use dhahelper (not yet finished) The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project) sources. Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi. Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi. Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av. (for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)