"crappy" driver

[Roland Scheidegger]

Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Am Montag, 8. Mai 2006 22:39 schrieb Mark Rosenstand:
> 
>> Since you're lucky enough to have a card supported by the open radeon
>> driver, you should really consider using that instead of the crappy
>> proprietary one.
> 
> The "crappy" proprietary driver does Xv the way its meant to instead of 
> looking like dithered 16bit like with a certain Xorg driver.
There was some code supposed to improve filtering quality when 
downscaling in the radeon driver which caused quite visible bogus 
interpolation when upscaling in some cases. I've disabled that code 
since about two months, so if that's what you saw it should be fixed. 
Other than that, I couldn't really see any difference between fglrx and 
the radeon driver wrt xv, they even share the same bugs/limitation (for 
instance that 1536 source width limitation with at least rv250) 
sometimes. However, I believe newest fglrx driver now can do textured 
video instead of using the hardware overlay, though I'd think picture 
quality would not be better (might be worse in some cases). This should 
get rid however of some chip limitations (should be able to support more 
than one xv "overlay", should increase source size limit to 2048x2048 on 
all supported chips).

Roland