[MPlayer-users] ati mach 64 and redhat 7.1

[Bret Hughes]

I have been working with mplayer and have been able to script the
playing of an small mpeg(20MB) movie.  However when I scale it I see
that it chews up all the cpu on my 700Mhz duron.  I assum this is due to
the software scaling that is occuring since afaics, Xvideo is not
availible.

I have read and reread the docs and currently believe that I will need
to get Xvideo working inorder to off load the scaling to the video card.

Is this correct?  I found a howto on compiling DRI and gatos (I think
through the mplayer docs but maybe not)  Before I launch down this path
I thought I would ask if this is the right move.

info

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)

$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-4.1.0-49

>From lspci -v

00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro
(rev dc) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0044
	Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
	Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
	Memory at defff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Expansion ROM at defc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1

xvinfo:   

$ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present


Thanks for any tips

Bret