[MPlayer-users] Feature Request: Support XVideo-MotionCompensation

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Nov 7 20:44:02 CET 2002


On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:33:23PM +0100, Shashanka wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> My video card supports the XVideo-MotionCompensation Extension of XFree86 4.x
> However, MPlayer continues to use the slow SSE for motion compensation. Will 
> there be support for this extension in the future?

Using hardware MC requires very close ties between the codec and the
XV driver to get any performance gain, and it's probably still slower
than good software MC just because of the bus latency. Also it
precludes any sort of postprocessing. So there's probably no point in
implementing it.

Rich




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