[MPlayer-users] mplayer and low end machines

[Roberto De Leo]

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>>if hardware acceleration is available then also a PentiumI 100MHz can be 
>>enough...
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>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.
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Yes, this is actually the stuff I meant and wrote uncorrectly "hw 
acceleration"
because my knowlegde of this technical stuff is very naif...

I imagine that you would reserv the term "hw acceleration" for MPEG cards
and that kind of stuff, right?

Still, I'd expect that if I had a G400 [i.e. a card with hw support for YUV
colorspace] on a PI 100 then I'd be able to play smoothly in fullscreen any
DivX and probably even a DVD, since I can play smoothly a DivX, even
though with no fullscreen, already on a PI 166!

Thank a lot for your technical clarification,
  Roberto De Leo