[MPlayer-users] mga_vid - xv how much faster?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:54:18PM +0100, DEBERT Jean-Louis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Johannes Porstein wrote:
> 
> >  mga_vid is a driver for matrox cards. It's slightly faster
> >  than Xv and you can watch movies w/o X. But it conflicts
> >  with Xv.
> 
> It does NOT conflict. I do have a G400 and I can confirm this.
> 
> >  what is w/o X?
> 
> short for  WithOut  X
> 
> >  and how much faster is mga_vid than xv?
> 
> It's faster because you don't need X at all (you can stay
> in command line and save X overhead).
> 
> Otherwise you can _also_ use mga_vid with X, use -vo xmga
> and then you can compare yourself.

Even xmga is a lot faster than xv. The issue is that xv copies the
image around in ram and/or does slow pixel packing in C. Just having X
around doesn't make things slower; mga and xmga should be the same
speed.

Rich