[Mplayer-dev-eng] x11 vs. dga

Balazs Tibor tibcu at sch.bme.hu
Mon Jun 18 19:07:46 CEST 2001


> Sorry, I'm behind a firewall and uploading things to a ftp-server is
> always a lot of work ... (copying to some location with a real IP ...)

and as email? :) (just 1-2 megs)

> > I've got no terminal attached to my computer :-(
> My good old Amiga 4000 :-))))

Hmmm, maybe I should try C=128? ;-)))

> > > bpp. For convenience the above values with -bpp 32: (the X11 driver
> > > ignores the -bpp switch, so its output is listed only once ...)
> > ?? -- -bpp 16 doesn'r work for you?
> Of course, but once X is running, -vo x11 -bpp 15 won't switch to 15

I didn't say that, I only said, that -bpp 15 helped for me.

> bits depth ... and as I'm a lazy guy I didn't want to stop the X-Server
> ... You know with XFree 4.0.x you can switch resolution on the fly ... :-)
> (at least for -vo dga :-)))) )

:-)

> > Yes, -bpp 15 can be a great help,
> > I used -vo dga /cdrom/Sunday1.avi -v -osdlevel 0 -bpp 15 to be able to
> > watch it fluently. (X running in 16 bpp) (X3.3.6)
> > without -bpp 15 (so actually 16 bpp) it was so slow
> > I don't understand this, because it says:
> > vo_dga: Mode: depth=15, bpp=16, r=007c00, g=0003e0, b=00001f, conversion (slow), (-bpp 15)
> > vo_dga: Mode: depth=16, bpp=16, r=00f800, g=0007e0, b=00001f, native (fast), (-bpp 16) ...disabled by -bpp 15
> > So I believed that using -bpp 15 will slower the things, but fortunately
> > the contrary happened :-)
>
> Hmmm, the actual copying should be (a little) faster for the native mode,
> but seems the divx decoder is much slower when producing 16 bit output ...

I see :-)

> Because in native modes, I just do a memcopy() and when doing conversion
> there is much more to be done ...

ok, now I understand it more

Bye
Tibcu


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