[MPlayer-dev-eng] Discussion: integration of DirectX VA API/DLL's in mplayer possible?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:55:53PM +0100, Juergen Hammelmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to improve system speed/performance at playing dvd's, 
> mpeg's in linux. mplayer is a great work... but could be much more better
> with implementing support for hardware acceleration for motion compensation 
> like for ATI cards (I have a Radeon VE).

As far as I remember there's a new extension (?) within latest XFree
versions, named XVmc or something similar (motion compensation X video).
Though I don't know anything about it, and of'coz I don't think that it's
a well-supported and tested feature of XFree ...

- Gábor