[MPlayer-DOCS] manpage -vo tdfx_vid & 3dfx

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Aug 8 19:31:30 CEST 2004


Torinthiel writes:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:50:38PM +0200, Torinthiel wrote:
> > 3dfx (Linux only)
> >   This driver employs the tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with
> >   YUV acceleration.
> > 
> >  tdfx_vid (Linux only)
> >   3Dfx specific output driver. Works in conjunction with a kernel module.
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be the other way round?
> 
> I still think this should be the other way round. (Man, lines 2370-2376)
> Should I change?

I disagree (I might be wrong though).

AFAIK tdfx_vid is an output driver that needs an external kernel
module similar to mga_vid, while 3dfx simply uses the in-kernel 3dfx
framebuffer driver.

Diego




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