[Mplayer-users] Re: S3 Virge video card

[Ivan Kalvatchev]

Yes S3 Virge Dx have full Overlay YUV support. Do you
want some benchmarks?
If fact it supports YUYV, and drivers convert by
software from YV12 and I420. The same is done for all
cards except i810, sis, and ati_r128 (look at XFree86
4.1.0 sources)
--- Anssi Saari <as at sci.fi> wrote:
> Since that advice is under Xv, are you saying it has
> working Xv support?
>
--- Gábor Lénárt <lgb at lgb.hu> wrote:

> IMHO It's about XVideo extension. Of course, plain
> X11 works fine with
> that card! Bat it's about XVideo and not graphics in
> general.
> I owned ViRGE as well an according the documentation
> from S3 it has
> some mpeg decoding support which - I think - is only
> a marketing
> step and it can be some kind of YUV->RGB converter.
> (But I am not sure).
> However I did not found XVideo support for ViRGE ...


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