Re: xine debs
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:27:35PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >Other point: performance. I am getting around 70 dropped frames out of
> >each block of 200... Which makes DVD useable, but impossible to really
> >_watch_ a movie. What are others getting? This is on a G4/400 TiBook.
> >Has anybody made any atttempt at using Altivec to speed things up?
>
> I'm pretty sure most of the performance problem is not due to decoding
> but to PCI throughput in Xv. This could probably be improved either by
> using bust mastering within Xv (using DRI) but that would be quite
> complicated, or by figuring out a way for Xv to map the YUV overlay
mmm, i have thought about doing something similar (on i386 and
glint/permedia3, altough it should work also for the proformance boards on ppc
hardware).
Why do you say, it would be difficult to use the dma engine from the DRI stuff
?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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