On 10 Mar 2003, Holden Hao wrote: .. > I vaguely remember in my readings that mplayer can run using the linux > frame buffer. Is this true? Has anyone tried it? How was the > performance.
why bother? for example the NVIDIA framebuffer driver doesn't support motion-compensation or hardware scaling; whereas the X driver does. if the goal is to "play movies on the bare console" then maybe it's worth doing. But X doesn't consume THAT much memory. one area where the fbdev is USEFUL is Keith Packard's TinyX for the iPAQ. It's basically a stripped-down X (with no network functionality, therefore no remote display) sitting directly on top of fbdev. That way the driver is trivial. and because the screen is small (320x320) the lack of hardware 2D acceleration is not a problem. again, i personally don't think there's much use for fbdev on the desktop -- except for that nifty boot logo. did you know there are TWO penguins on the graphical bootlogo if you have an SMP box? :) --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
