Re: [xine-user] support for Rage 128 hardware decoding?

[Jacek K. <ja...@bn...>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:22:38AM +0200, Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote:
> Hi Jacek,
> 
> Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:35:53AM +0000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > If you want to use it - I think you'll need XFree 4.0.3 from your Linux
> > > distribution.
> > This won't use hardware accelerated IDCT/motion compensation. Without it
> > DVDs on my Linux are not played well enough on my hardware, so I have
> > still to use Windows for playing DVD. I don't like this.
> > My hardware is:
> >         AMD K6-II 3DNow 400MHz
> >         ATI Rage 128
> >         DVD drive 4x
> 
> 	Here there a K6-II 450 which playback nicely DVDs. It have
> a All-In-Wonder Rage128/16mb, Gatos drivers, latest XFree CVS server,
> 64Mb, Linux kernel 2.4.3. It only drop 20~40 frames, and sound
> is smooth.
20~40 frames per what?

> 	Did you use Gatos video driver ?. Did you compile by your
> own xine, or use a precompiled version ?? If you compile it, is
> arch is set to k6 (this is visible while compiling, a  '-mcpu=k6'), On
> this machine, i need to export the XINE_BUILD envvar to k6-pc-linux-gnu
> and notice some speed improvments.

I used gatos driver. I am not using it now as Xv in XFree86 4.0.3 is not 
much slower, and gatos binaries break my GLX (I don't have time fot playing
with DRI CVS compilation).
I used precompiled and myself-compiled xine (with all k6 optymalisations). It
wasn't a big difference.
DVDs play quite good (about 12-18fps AFAIR) but it is not good enough. 
In Windows playback is smooth, on Linux not. And I am sure that is because
my video card is not fully used.
I know it is not xine issue, but XFree (it should be supported in Xserver),
but DVD player's developers may have bigger influence on XFree developers.

Greets,
	Jacek