[MPlayer-users] pentium200mmx,32megs,voodoo rush

[Mark Zealey]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:13:52PM -0400, Luke Harrison wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:47:10 +0200
> Filip Mikulik <fmikulik at students.zcu.cz> wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > is it possible to play divx movies on such a low power system using mplayer 
> > (or what other player would you recommend for this poor system configuration, 
> > if any)?
> > i have pentium200 mmx,32 mb ram,voodoo rush card with 4 mb and tv-out,isa 
> > soundblaster awe32
> > does anyone have any experience with such underpowered systems and divx?
> > what output should i choose : fb,svga,xv,glx or any other? 
> > what divx bitrates (upper limit) could it handle if any?
> > i searched google,some say it is possible,but not how
> > i searched this board and didn't found any relevant info
> > thanks for the great player, i use it on my celeron 500 and it's working 
> > flawlessly,great job done

> Banshee is supported by the tdfxfb.o in 2.4 kernels, AFAIK...
> So i assume MPlayer's vo_tdfxfb will support it.
> I'd imagine using
> mplayer -vc ffdvix -vop yuy2 -dr -vo tdfxfb file.avi 
> might  be fast enough without framedrop....
> well maybe... try it!

Yep, it's the fastest output on my computer... thats why I wrote it ;) I dont
know if it will work on a rush, where abouts is that in the voodoo development
chain? tdfxfb works on a banshee or greater, prolly wont work on a voodoo 2 but
I havnt heard of anyone trying.

The tdfxfb driver in mplayer does *not* have anything to do with the kernel
driver, I just use the standard fb stuff in the kernel and the tdfxfb driver for
my banshee, it just uses /dev/fb0 or whatever device you specify to manipulate
the card's internal memory registers etc. You must be in framebuffer mode to use
it though, text mode is not good enough and with X I've seen it corrupt the
cursor and other weird things.

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