[MPlayer-dev-eng] Import of VIDIX drivers

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Why you don't import fixed vidix drivers?
> Do you have planes to remove this technology from mplayer?

no
i just 
1. can't test them (afair Michael made changes to mach64 part)
2. don't have time

> I ask it because I have planes to implement bus mastering
> as next step of decoding speedup (after finding or implementing
> some dha_helper for linux ;) but this feature is useless
> in single-thread decoding since speed of dma transfer ~= speed
> of CPU transfer and only possitive effect from this technology
> can be reached with using decoding ahead in thread-based version.
no, it won't be useless
i've already explained this at dri-devel ~ a week ago, to Peter Surda


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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