Hello,
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Michael Mol wrote:
>On Saturday, October 22, 2016 05:28:22 AM David Haller wrote:
>> And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time.
>
>Unless things have changed massively in the last 3-4 years, you almost
>certainly were using xv without really knowing about it. With just 'x11',
>you're forced into using software scaling instead of hardware scaling, which
>massively slows things down. And hardware scaling has been a feature of
>essentially every video card since, I dunno, 1994 or earlier? And the xv
>extension has been available since 1991...
That was with Matrox Mystique 4 MB from 1996 and XFree86 3.3.6.
$ grep 'vo=' Backup/.../.mplayer/config:vo=x11
I tried xv, and I guess it did not work as well as x11 ;)
-dnh
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lp1 on fire
-- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages
