[MPlayer-dev-eng] cruft removal

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Oct 30 13:39:09 CET 2003


Hi,

> A>as i said already, gl and gl2 are very different.
> A>gl2 supports texture tiling, but there is bigger difference:
> A>gl2 does several calls to gl core to query status of available
> A>functions, colorspaces, etc. on sgi (and really conformant drivers)
> A>it works fine, but with DRI it fails, as MESA emulates all the
> A>functions in software, so all of the queried formats etc seems to work,
> A>but most of them are software emulated and so unusably slow.
> A>so gl2 performs very bad on DRI driver powered cards.
> 
> What do you mean by that? For example, my new Radeon 9800 card uses DRI,

arent you use ati's binary driver?

> but gl2 performs good. gl is worse; it doesn't support osd, ignores
> aspect in fullscreen and works with the same speed.

maybe the new cards like yours now support all colorspaces modes etc
by hardware, so it doesnt matter, but for old cards, like voodoo3 or
matrox g400 gl2 is much worse.

> Unfortunately, it isn't supported by vidix. Oh well, maybe just adding
> its id will help; I'll try this right now.

sure


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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