[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] support for libXvMCW wrapper library

[RC]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:03:20 +0200
Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:

> What other packages do I need

A driver that has xvmc support.  eg. The binary nvidia driver.

> do I need to set another -vo, 

-vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc

> what's the expected speed-up/quality enhancement, 

It varies, but you should see a huge speed-up. 

> does it work with binary or free drivers?

Just ffmpeg12, nothing else.  No mpeg4, nothing.

> I personally never managed to make xvidix work on my machine, so that
> might be of some interest for lame users like me.

I wouldn't recomend it.  It's for only non-telecined, non-interlaced
mpeg1/mpeg2 videos.  You can't do any filtering/video processing at
all (except the equivalent of "-vf field").

It's nice for those with systems so slow they can't otherwise handle
realtime playback (ie. VIA CPUs) but for the rest of us, xvmc
really isn't worth using.