[MPlayer-dev-eng] DECODING AHEAD - (Initialy Michael's idea)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 25 February 2002 19:45, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:24:29AM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > PLUSES: Direct rendering will be die :)
>
> what kinda crack are you smoking? direct rendering will be more of a
> performance boost than buffering frames ahead could hope to be, once
> its done. the only way i can see your idea being any good for
> performance is if there's enough video memory to place all the frames
> into video memory directly as they're buffered, but that would require
> even more insane amounts of video memory than modern cards have.
how much video ram does ur card have?

if u take 512x384 video (pretty common resolution) and assume yv12 then u 
need 512*384*1.5=300kb for 1 frame
for 8 frames its 2.3mb ... that isnt that much ...

Michael