[MPlayer-users] speaking of vo... (was How I take a screenshot ??)

[ivanova]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:39:08 +0300
Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:

> > Thanks, that really clears things up. ;)
> > Where does xvidix and gl/gl2 fit into this?
> 
> Xv uses the drivers that XFree / X.Org provides through X. xvidix sort of
> bypasses X and talks to the hardware directly, this provides some marginal
> performance improvement.
> 
> gl/gl2 uses OpenGL, a 3D graphics API. This usually requires colourspace
> conversion too, depending on the card, but most cards will be able to scale
> in hardware. In most cards, the 3D engine is separate from the YUV overlay
> engine, so you'll be using a different part of your graphics card with gl.
> 
> On my matrox card, the gl speed isn't really usable though :-\

Thanks for the info - I tried the gl drivers with my nvidia card but there's
some problem - So it's even less usable than yours ;)