On Fre, 2002-11-29 at 18:04, Sven Luther wrote: > 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. > > > > > [...] 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 ?
I haven't seen any player explicitly mention supporting it, but maybe they just keep it secret. > 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. Not that we have information about those. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
