KMS Textured Video

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM, James Cloos<cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> The XVideo corruption also occurs w/o KMS if I specify the textured video
>
> Alex> It's fixed now:
> Alex> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=a32384f9b9ed73c14484a380dfa14652ed478ad6
>
> Cool.  I'll give that at try later today.
>
>>> OTOH, given that textured video on r100 is pretty pathetic, the real
>>> fix would be to add overlay video support to KMS.
>
> Alex> What's the problem with textured video?  It should perform as well
> Alex> or better than the overlay without all the limitations.
>
> It is not a question of performace but of features.
>
> The overlay supports 8 formats and 22 attributes (more on hw which has a
> tuner) whereas the textured video supports 4 formats and only a single
> attribute.

Really the only missing formats are RGB formats which would be trivial
to add to textured video, but generally I don't seem much point in
adding them as they are already supported with transforms via render.
The lack of attributes is legitimate however.

Alex