[MPlayer-users] Re: Display card recommendations

[Thargor]

Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> writes:

> mga_vid, tdfxfb and vidix drivers solve the limitations of Xv:
> - direct access to video ram - faster rendering (the codec/filter writes
>   directly to video ram - less sysram usage and free'd the cpu needed for memcpy)
> - triple and higher buffering - solves jittering and flickering problems
> - support for more YUV formats, like YVU9 etc. most Xv driver only supports
>   YUY2, and has very very slow unoptimized C yv12->yuy2 converter inside.
> 
> it would be all impossible without opensource drivers and open specs.
> 
> anyway the progress of opensource nvidia Xv driver development is very nice
> - maybe one day you'll get working vidix driver for your nvidia card.

And hopfully for parhelia too... back to topic ;-)

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Thargor