[MPlayer-users] Hardware Acceleration for DVD playback

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:25:08AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:21:20 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > xv, sdl, gl, and dga are all very slow. the fast vo's are mga & vidix,
> 
> That's directly in contradiction with my own experience.  I've tried
> with both an ATI 128 and a Radeon 8500, and vidix was quite slow for me.
>  XV improved things immensely.

perhaps you forgot to enable mtrr's or something?
i can't know the cause without more explanation. but xv does extra
useless copies so it can never be faster assuming everything else is
equal.
rich