On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:34 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM, James Cloos<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Deucher <[email protected]> writes: > > > >>> OTOH, given that textured video on r100 is pretty pathetic, the real > >>> fix would be to add overlay video support to KMS. > > > > Alex> What's the problem with textured video? It should perform as well > > Alex> or better than the overlay without all the limitations. > > > > It is not a question of performace but of features. > > > > The overlay supports 8 formats and 22 attributes (more on hw which has a > > tuner) whereas the textured video supports 4 formats and only a single > > attribute. > > Really the only missing formats are RGB formats which would be trivial > to add to textured video, but generally I don't seem much point in > adding them as they are already supported with transforms via render.
Some apps (e.g. emulators) have support for XVideo but not RENDER. Unless it would be a lot of work (which I can hardly imagine), I think it would make sense. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
