Re: DVD playback suspend and wake issue

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 01:16:01AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fre, 2002-11-29 at 00:41, Marc Menem wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Well, it seems to me that we all, michel daenzer's 
> > server users are already using the gatos project's 
> > driver.
> 
> No, why do you think so?
> 
> >  And, it seems from what I read on their 
> > site, that as long as there are no specs released 
> > from ati, this isn't supported by the Xv 
> > extension, as it could.
> 
> True; moreover, Xv can't use these things by design, one would have to
> use something like XvMC instead.

Do the video players not use XvMC if it exists ? 

Also, it should be possible to do idct and even motion compensation with
the programmable texture engine (for mocomp) and some other programmable
unit for idct.

Friendly,

Sven Luther