r128 or new card

[Ondrej Zary]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 20:32:34 Corbin Simpson wrote:
> 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.

Xv is best on Rage 128 too. Last time I tried it, there was a problem with 
16MB card - Xv acceleration didn't work when DRI was enabled - looked like 
driver limitation.

>
> ~ C.
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