[MPlayer-users] XV performance with PCI graphics

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:30:02 +0200
>
> Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:
> > This makes no difference, XV transfers the video as 12bpp (YV12)
> > regardless of x11 colour depth.
>
> Point taken.  I suppose with such a low BPP that would preclude
> overwhelming the PCI bus at that resolution as well.


Well it's not overwhelmed if it's keeping up ;) 

I've seen similar differences between PCI and PCIe myself. Maybe the Xv 
driver doesn't DMA?