[MPlayer-users] XFree86 hardware acceleration

[Damion de Soto]

Matt Ficken wrote:

> 
> Is there a low-cost hardware acceleration card I could use to take some of the burden off of 
 > XFree86? I'm using an nVIDIA nForce SVGA card. Are there settings I could change to
> lower  XFree86's workload

What X video driver are you using ?
the nvidia one from nvidia?
or the nv one from XF86 ?

if you run the nvidia driver, and use mplayer with xv output, it will be lowest cpu 
usage.


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