On Tuesday 24 June 2008 20:32:34 Corbin Simpson wrote: > Alberto Hernando wrote: > > El Lunes, 23 de Junio de 2008 06:02, Alex Deucher escribió: > >> IIRC the gl requirements of the mplayer gl output are probably more > >> than the r128 3D engine can handle without software fallbacks, and I'd > >> imaging you are hitting quite a few. > > > > Hi. > > > > If this is so, considering that glxgears asks for a lot of cpu too... > > does it mean that the driver lacks a few features? > > OTOH, I've built the same in another box. It's one with and igp9100 > > chipset. And I get more or less the same: glxgears not too fast (I don't > > have numbers, sorry) but also asking for a lot of cpu. That one is > > ati-6.8.191. But in this case what I really want is tv-out, so I don't > > care much. > > Gears Is Not A Benchmark. :3 > > mplayer -vo gl is slow for a handful of reasons; typically, mplayer -vo > gl2 will be much faster. I don't know which one will perform better on > the r1xx series; it's entirely possible that both of them require > features that the r1xx just doesn't support. > > However, on Radeons, Xv is always going to be fastest because it uses 3D > engine code directly, without going through DRI, and it should be quite > suitable for your needs.
Xv is best on Rage 128 too. Last time I tried it, there was a problem with 16MB card - Xv acceleration didn't work when DRI was enabled - looked like driver limitation. > > ~ C. > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati -- Ondrej Zary _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
