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Re: Slow XVideo



On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 00:56 +0200, Markus Walser wrote:
> 
> The problem I´m faced to is that the XFree server uses quite a lot of CPU time to
> play a DVD even with XVideo. With this configuration the Xserver uses more than 
> mplayer/xine itself to play a DVD. And in fullscreen it´s way to slow to play on
> the 1GHz Efficeon CPU .

[...]

> (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x1000000)

This is likely the problem because the X server copies the XVideo data
to the framebuffer with the CPU. You're probably running vesafb or
radeonfb in console, and it's setting up a conflicting partial MTRR
region for the framebuffer? (A workaround for this was committed to
X.org CVS HEAD recently)


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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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