[MPlayer-users] svga scaling problem

[Stephen Mollett]

Hi,

On Sunday 28 December 2008 00:42:03 Dave Wood wrote:
> I'm using svgalib to play movies and the last one I played has been a pain.
> ...
> I would much rather this is done in hardware than software since this is a
> slowish T42 laptop. So...
> ...
> Is there some way of using hardware to scale the image up to max width?

I assume you have a good reason for not using X11 for video output. If it's a 
ThinkPad T42 then it strikes me as quite a beefy machine (a quick google 
suggests a Pentium-M at 1.7GHz or above) with quite capable ATI graphics 
hardware that would have plenty of headroom for playing video under X. 
(Certainly quite a bit more substantial than my X40's 1.2GHz P-M CPU and 
Intel 855GME graphics.)

If you used X11, you could probably use the Xv output driver which does 
hardware scaling and YUV->RGB conversion.

Just a suggestion...

Stephen