r128 or new card

[Corbin Simpson]

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Alberto Hernando wrote:
> El Lunes, 23 de Junio de 2008 06:02, Alex Deucher escribió:
>> IIRC the gl requirements of the mplayer gl output are probably more
>> than the r128 3D engine can handle without software fallbacks, and I'd
>> imaging you are hitting quite a few.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> If this is so, considering that glxgears asks for a lot of cpu too... does it 
> mean that the driver lacks a few features?
> OTOH, I've built the same in another box. It's one with and igp9100 chipset. 
> And I get more or less the same: glxgears not too fast (I don't have numbers, 
> sorry) but also asking for a lot of cpu. That one is ati-6.8.191. But in this 
> case what I really want is tv-out, so I don't care much.

Gears Is Not A Benchmark. :3

mplayer -vo gl is slow for a handful of reasons; typically, mplayer -vo
gl2 will be much faster. I don't know which one will perform better on
the r1xx series; it's entirely possible that both of them require
features that the r1xx just doesn't support.

However, on Radeons, Xv is always going to be fastest because it uses 3D
engine code directly, without going through DRI, and it should be quite
suitable for your needs.

~ C.
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