Re: [xine-devel] Xine performance

[Torgeir V. <to...@po...>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:54, W. Michael Petullo wrote:

> On a related note, has any progress been made on the XvMC front?  I know
> that XFree86 is able to use some hardware features in some of Intel's
> graphics chips when performing XvMC operations.  There is
> a thread related to this topic on a GATOS mailing list:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1287483&forum_id=5014.
> I'd really like to see the IDCT and motion compensation features in my
> iBook's r128 supported by XFree86.  I don't know if this is happening
> or not, though.

XvMC support kind-of halted due to negative comments by among others
myself. 

The problem with XvMC in the ibook is that ATI doesn't currently, and
will probably never, release any specs to their hardware iDCT engine. So
you won't see any open source driver implementing XvMC for ATI. They
currently have a closed source driver for their radeon 8500+ chipset,
but I'm not shure if it supports XvMC or not.

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Torgeir Veimo <to...@po...>