Re: Xvideo acceleration: GATOS for PPC?
On 30 Aug, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> Josh Huber wrote:
>> The XVideo stuff for mach64 does not work on ppc in the current X,
>
> It doesn't even have XVideo support yet.
i386 advertises Xvideo support; but it is broken. Max image size is
2048 x 0 ;-)
>> and using the GATOS stuff helped immensely, although I still don't have
>> the performance on my Lombard to play DVDs, oh well. Before GATOS I
>> got about 55% frames deocded, after I get about 77% frames decoded. I
>> wonder if I'd be able to get a 23% increase, without altivec? seems
>> unlikely.
>
> Using DMA for the transfer _might_ make the difference, but there'd have to be
> DRI for mach64 first.
Yeah, that would probably help.
>> Oh yeah, I also pulled the endian related patch from the xfree source:
On r128, there's also Michel's patch from Xfree CVS. Applied to GATOS,
and now it wors OK.
Cheers
Michel
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