video playback on ATI Rage 3D Pro

[Dexter Filmore]

Hm, I just tried xine with Xshm for fun. *That* looks proper, but eats CPU
cycles like popcorn. So I guess I'll have to upgrade the card.


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:30:05 -0500
Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 16.12.2005, 14:00 +0100 schrieb Dexter Filmore:
> > Yes, I am aware the Rage Pro is *old*.
> > 
> > However, according to ATIs specs it should be able to do scaling and partly
> > motion comp in hardware. Is this implemented in the "ati" xserver? 
> 
> The Xv extension (video scaling) should be supported. At least it used
> to work great for me with XFree86 4.x when I had such a piece a couple
> of years back. XvMC (iDCT and motion compensation) is not supported on
> ATI hardware by Xorg.
> 
> Regards,
>   Felix
> 
> > 
> > (I hooked up my dvb-t box to my secondary machine planned to become a VDR.)
> > 
> > Dex
> > 
> > 
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