[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[Green, Shaun]

>This is not hardware acceleration, it's hardware support for YUV
>colorspace, plus drivers that allow you to write directly to video
>memory rather than letting the slow broken xf86 drivers copy the image
>around and convert it multiple times before actually displaying it.

I thought this is what -vo sdl:dga was for. Isn't it faster than vidix?

On my Geforce 256 card, for full-screen playback @ 640x480 using libav
(default) for mpeg4 decoding, -vo xv seems to be the smoothest and sdl:dga
is second, being just a little jerky.

I'm using an AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz.

Shaun