Re: iBook and playing DVDs
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>> That is you should have at least 2 buffers so you can asynchronously
>> DMA a frame while decoding the next frame. It makes only sense to busy
>> loop on the DMA if you are decoding faster than what you display. If this
>> is not the case, then you are just throwing CPU cycles by the window.
>>
>> The whole point of DMA is for the CPU to do something else while the
>> ATI chip is doing the transfer.
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>The problem is that the XVideo extension is very simple (it was
>basically designed to display single images with colorspace conversion
>and scaling, nothing more), so if this scheme is possible at all with
>it, the app will have to do the hard work.
Doesn't xv support double buffer ?
>Things are probably better with XvMC.
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