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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
