[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Another SiS vidix issue

[Jake Page]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Alban Bedel wrote:

> That's not my experimented with a banshee. Using xv is the worst, then
> come tdfxfb and finnaly tdfx_vid. However using tdfx_vid i have mostly
> the same performence on the framebuffer and under X (on a k6-333).
> Try a vidix/*_vid vs. xv on a box with a <= 500 MHz CPU and you'll
> see that xv is just slooooow.

You have a point there. I guess using vidix allows 1 less memcpy per 
frame when done correctly, which can really matter on a slow CPU...

-Jake