On 31 Mar 2002, lurwas wrote:
> Hi.
> I'm wondering of the status of the Silicon Motion Lynx 3DM driver?
> I've tried it once before, and I can't seem to get a decent frame rate
> when playing DVD and DivX movies (I can when using Windows). This is a
> Pentium III 600Mhz processor with 128 MB ram, so the hardware should be
> sufficient?
> I've tried with both Xine (one of the latest versions), XMMS avi-plugin,
> vlc and so on. I've also read the Lynx 3DM man page that comes with the
> driver, and have experemeted with some of the settings. Whilst getting a
> performance increase with some of them, the frame rate doesn't even come
> near to being "acceptable".
> So, could someone plese give me the status on this one? Is it a lost
> cause? I hate to have to run Windows, just to play DivX's and DVD's...:(
>
Looking at the code for the siliconmotion driver in the tree, I'm
not surprised. It looks like the driver is polling until the retrace
everytime it has to put a frame. I would expect that to eat up more
CPU than just doing all the video in software. You should probably
try it without Xv, if that's being used now. Or somebody should fix
the drivers.
Mark.
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