[MPlayer-users] Re: Display card recommendations
Thargor
realthargor at gmx.net
Tue Sep 17 22:36:01 CEST 2002
Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> writes:
> mga_vid, tdfxfb and vidix drivers solve the limitations of Xv:
> - direct access to video ram - faster rendering (the codec/filter writes
> directly to video ram - less sysram usage and free'd the cpu needed for memcpy)
> - triple and higher buffering - solves jittering and flickering problems
> - support for more YUV formats, like YVU9 etc. most Xv driver only supports
> YUY2, and has very very slow unoptimized C yv12->yuy2 converter inside.
>
> it would be all impossible without opensource drivers and open specs.
>
> anyway the progress of opensource nvidia Xv driver development is very nice
> - maybe one day you'll get working vidix driver for your nvidia card.
And hopfully for parhelia too... back to topic ;-)
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Thargor
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