[MPlayer-users] Re: Radeon frambuffer use if Radeon is not primary display?

[Sven Hartge]

Nick Kurshev <nickols_k at mail.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:26:25 +0100 you wrote:

>> The bandwidth of the PCI-Bus is enough so 1600x1200 with 24bit can be

> 1600x1200x3=5.7Mb if you want to have 30 fps you need have
> bandwidth=172.8Mb/sec but ordinal PCI bus has
> bandwidth=33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec well PCI2.1 has double
> bandwidth=256Mb/sec.  So not every PCI slot is good for that

Ok, 1600x1200 may have been a bit high guess ;) But the point being is,
that video playback will never ("640k should be enough for everybody"
...) exhaust the availible data rate of the PCI bus.

S°

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