[MPlayer-users] Hardware Acceleration for DVD playback

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:58:45PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:24:18 +0100
> Matt <matt at mattford.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have an ATi Rage Pro 3D 8MB graphics card that claims to have MPEG-2
> > decoding on it somewhere, I was wondering if it's possible to get this
> > working properly 
> 
> Nope.  :-)
> 
> XVMC supports hardware-accelerated mpeg1/2 playback, but it requires
> X11, doesn't allow any video processing, such as deinterlacing (so it's
> useless for me, and I'm sure many others) and most importantly, it's
> only supported by a small number of video cards' drivers, and I don't
> believe yours is one of them.
> 
> > I don't have X installed and would like to avoid having it if possible
> > because I am concerned about wasting valuable processor time running
> > that  as opposed to decoding DVDs.
> 
> Loading X would waste a small bit of CPU time, but gives you huge
> returns, because then you can use xv (or perhaps sdl, gl, dga, etc.),
> which would improve the video performance, greatly.  

xv, sdl, gl, and dga are all very slow. the fast vo's are mga & vidix,
which work equally well on console or x..

rich