[MPlayer-users] Where is the S3 Savage4 driver?

[Frank Mehnert]

On Saturday 14 September 2002 23:37, Alessandro Selli wrote:

> NOTE: Savage cards have a slow YV12 image displaying capability (it needs
> to do YV12 to YUY2 conversion, because the Savage hardware can't display
> YV12). So when this documentation says at some point "this has YV12 output
> use this, it's faster", it's not sure. Try _this driver_, it uses MMX2 for
> this task and is faster than the native X driver.

As far as I know this is only true for "newer" Savage Chips like Savage/IX-MX
wich is used for some IBM Thinkpads. The older Savage 4 has the "old" stream
machine (see savage_video.c). This engine _has_ the YV12 mode.

Frank
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