[MPlayer-users] mga_vid - xv how much faster?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> Steve Stavropoulos wrote:
> > > and how much faster is mga_vid than xv?
> >  In my PII at 400 mga_vid is about 15% faster than Xv.
> Note that saying "generally" xv is not right. One Xv driver may be fast,
> others may (are) be not. (NeoMagic:)))

Gabu, xv can never be as fast as mga because with xv mplayer can't
write directly to video memory. It has to write to an intermediate
buffer first then tell the X server to blit it all at once. With mga,
mplayer can write in slices or with dr.

Rich