On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 19:25 -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> It should be pretty easy to make that decision now.  The hardware budget 
> doesn't leave any room for extras that can already be accomplished with 
> the existing 3D pipeline.  MPlayer et al know how to convert YUV, so 
> the card doesn't need to.  Host CPU overhead is unlikely to be an issue 
> here.

On my AthlonMP 2800+ (2.13GHz/512K L2) and a 512x384 XViD file (no
scaling):

With hardware accelerated YUV->RGB (Xv, radeon 9100): ~2.5% CPU time
(bounced from 1% to 3%, most of the numbers were clustered around 2.5)
Without (DGA2): ~18% CPU Time (17->20%, most clustered round 18 +/-
0.2%)

18% of one of my AthlonMPs is more processor power than my 500Mhz k6-2
has, so I'd have to keep using a Radeon in it to make it able to play
DVDs (anything more complex than MPEG2 is a lost cause above QCIF on
it).
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