video playback on ATI Rage 3D Pro

[Felix Kühling]

Am Samstag, den 17.12.2005, 19:20 +0100 schrieb 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.

Xshm means scaling in software. The only difference to standard X11 is
that it communicates with the server through shared memory, which
reduces memory copying overhead. What you really want is Xv.

Regards,
  Felix

> 
> 
> 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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