i965 textured video crash

[Matthias Hopf]

On Nov 10, 06 13:34:15 +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote:
> I noticed a thing that I would say is strange.
> When I play a movie without Xv from any supporting movie player
> (e.g. a gstreamer aware app with x11 no Xv, or mplayer -vo x11)
> the video window does well all 3d effects (rotates with cube, woobles, ...)
> and the playback is good and the cpu is idle.

Can't be 100% idle, as the CPU has to do decoding and color conversion.

> If I use vesa driver, instead, the playback is bad and the cpu gets loaded.

This is mostly due to less efficient memory transfer.

> So I think it is accelerated.

Not really. Only XVideo has support for YUV color space. You can emulate
that with OpenGL, but not with plain X11.

Matthias

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