[MPlayer-users] Video scaling for GeForce cards

[gabor farkas]

hi,


what problems do you exactly have?

skipped frames? slow playback?

and how do you know that it can't open that yuv scaler thing?


i have an athlon1000mhz....

had a tnt2 and haven't had problems with anyhi-res divx files ( haven't
tried dvds )...

so please tell us what exactly is your problem..

thanks,
gabor


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Dooferlad wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> First off, whoever fixed SP-DIF out / ALSA 0.9 good job! I now have a DVD
> playback solution under Linux that is getting close to replacing PowerDVD
> in Windows!
> 
> I am having a problem with DVD playback speed though, I have an Athlon 750
> / GeForce 256 / 256Mb of RAM, and the AC3 decoding is being done
> externally, so I would have thought that MPlayer would be able to keep up.
> At the moment it can't, but it is having to use software scaling because
> it can't open the YUV scaler that sits in my GeForce. I am running
> nVidia's X Drivers so I expected everything to perform fine.
> 
> Are there any colour depth restrictions that anyone knows of when using the
> YUV scaler? I am running in 32 bit colour at the moment - should I try 16?
> 
> The big DVD players under Windows say that software scaling is best - and
> that is what I use, so this may be a blessing in disguise since if there
> is no quick fix I will end up looking at the software scaler before long,
> and trying to speed things up!
> 
> -- 
>     Dooferlad
>   [ http://www.thelongslide.com ]
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