[MPlayer-users] MPlayer 0.90rc4, radeon 9000, MC, IDCT

[Balatoni Denes]

On 2003. február 23. 17:24, cm5oom at post.com wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> that was no more nvidia propeganda then the other one
> and as far as i can tell the gatos driver does not
> support it, maybe because it is stupid.
>
> so now my question is why is it a "nonsensical useless feature" and how
> does video decoding work?
for total lamers in video coding (eg me a few days ago) 
http://www.vcodex.fsnet.co.uk/resources.html
is perhaps usefull.
imho Richard meant that if your cpu is fast enough than hardware help  doesn't 
matter much. 
others mentioned that hardware mc/idct looks better for some reason (maybe 
they interpolate/filter something somehow), others said it's nonsense.

bye
Denes

ps: I only saw a picture comparision between dxr3 and some (perhaps lame) 
software decoded frame, and dxr3 was indeed nicer (well probably it was just 
smoothed)