Re: DVD playback suspend and wake issue
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:34:46PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du mardi 26 novembre 2002, vers 16:02,
> Marc Menem <marc.menem@polytechnique.org> disait:
>
> > BTW, has anyone a clue why DVD playback is fine under MacOS ? Is there
> > some kind of hardware mpeg decoder in the ati chip which isn't
> > supported under GNU/Linux, or did they just do a great optimisation
> > job ?
>
> The ATI chip is able to do at least partial MPEG2 decompression (I
> think they are able to do a full MPEG2 decompression). It is known as
Sure it does, but i think there are no specs available or something
such, and thus no XV support, at least i did not find any such stuff in
current XFree86 HEAD CVS. There may be some support with the GATOS
drivers or something such.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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