[MPlayer-users] Re: Radeon frambuffer use if Radeon is not primary display?

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, Sven!

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:26:25 +0100 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> "Brian J. Murrell" <27df919b1892780b197f106bd2aecf97 at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:10:36PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> 
> >> Do you mean PCI version of the card (I've never heard about PCI
> >> radeon)
> 
> > I was just assuming.  I have not actually looked yet.  No PCI would
> > suck.  Does video streaming really need the bandwidth of the AGP but
> > even if using 720x??? resolutions?
> 
> No.
> 
> All this AGP-"Mess" was only created to be able to have fast access to
> texture-images located in the main memory of the PC. So, again, the
> gaming fraction were the peolpe screaming for more bandwidth, not the
> normal Users.
> 
> The bandwidth of the PCI-Bus is enough so 1600x1200 with 24bit can be
1600x1200x3=5.7Mb if you want to have 30 fps you need have bandwidth=172.8Mb/sec
but ordinal PCI bus has bandwidth=33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec
well PCI2.1 has double bandwidth=256Mb/sec.
So not every PCI slot is good for that
> transported into the video card (and a lot more is possible), so there
> should be no problems with 720x568 at whatever color depth.
> 
> S╟
> 
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Best regards! Nick