[MPlayer-users] Re: Framebuffer instead of X

[Sebastian D.B. Krause]

Jacek Popławski <jpopl at interia.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:50:11PM +0200, Stefan Lange wrote:
>>> Well I use RH 7.3 and have very good frame rates. Type 'glxgears' to 
>>> test if your frame rates are good with X first.
>> 
>> huh? what does open-gl performance have to do with video-overlay 
>> performance? [ unless, of course, you want to use -vo gl(2) ]
>
> Probably he has nNidia card, and when OpenGL works - it means nVidia binary
> driver is installed, so Xv will work too.

It depends on your XFree86-Version whether you need the driver from
http://www.nvidia.com for Xv-support or not:

,----[ http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-9.html ]
| Xv only works with nVidia's own drivers (prior to XFree86
| 4.2.0). After 4.2.0 Xv works with the standard drivers. NVidia's own
| drivers can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/
`----

Sebastian