Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:02 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:20:26PM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> > * Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]:
> >
> > > > Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the
> > > > Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as
> > > > Maria talks, with the nv driver you miss this subtle facial acting.
> > > >
> > > > I too was surprised that having the hardware decoding made a qualatative
> > > > difference rather than just using more system resources.
> > >
> > > Wow, I hadn't expected the Xv extensions to be able to make that kind of
> > > difference to the decoded video. Or perhaps there is some serious bug
> > > in the open nv driver.
> >
> > Or try different video output drivers. In mplayer, -vo I think is the
> > switch. The selected driver can make a difference.
> >
>
> Could you elaborate on output drivers? I'm in the midst of a reinstall
> so don't have VLC or the docs installed. I haven't tried mplayer.
> Also, I don't actually own any DVDs. The Sound of Music was borrowed
> from family from out-of-town over the Christmas holidays.
"mplayer -vo help" lists the different options. there are options like
x11 (unaccelerated output), xv (Overlay-based output), gl (opengl-based
output), gl2 (multitexturing opengl-based output), aalib (text-mode
output)
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