On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 00:19, Michel Lanners wrote: > - make the iDCT and motion compensation of the ATI chip available under > Linux. Single most usefull improvement.
Unfortunately, it's also the least likely to happen. I think fully utilizing what we can should allow for at least bearable playback on any current hardware. > Also for comparison, a Celeron 600 with an ATI Mach64 (Mobility M1, > really), using the Gatos Xv-enabled drivers, with MTRR set, plays smooth > DVD at 30%-40% CPU usage. Keep in mind that CPU provides MMX > acceleration which is heavily used for DVD playback. How do you measure the CPU usage? Peter Surda suggests that top doesn't tell the whole truth. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost his mail explaining how to get more accurate numbers, but it should be found on Xpert or l-k. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
