[MPlayer-users] XvMC support?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:26:14AM +0200, Mario J. Barchéin Molina wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> > several of the XFree86 video drivers now support the XvMC extension,
> > which can be used to speedup MPEG2 decoding. (Namely, the NVIDIA
> > binary drivers, i810, savage, via (binary), ati--if I got it right)
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> > Are there any plans to support this extension in MPlayer?
> > Can it be used for something else besides MPEG2 decoding?
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> Maybe this is still aplicable:
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> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-December/025606.html

Nope it's not. :) Ivan has just written xvmc support for mplayer, but
I think it still has some bugs. Also, I'm not sure if the necessary
changes have been merged into libavcodec for it to work. Read the
mplayer-dev-eng and ffmpeg-devel lists if you want to experiment with
it, but remember that this is very new code and might not work right,
or might be hard to get working...

Rich