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diff --git a/DOCS/VIDEOCARDS b/DOCS/VIDEOCARDS index efa091db0a..0864f63355 100644 --- a/DOCS/VIDEOCARDS +++ b/DOCS/VIDEOCARDS @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Videocards with hardware acceleration: bilinear filtering. Under Linux, there are several ways to access it: I. The Xv (XVideo) extension of XFree86 4.0.2 +I.1. Card-specific notes/settings II. OpenGL drivers with glTexSubImage() support III. Native card-specific drivers, using special abilities of some cards IV. DGA - direct graphic access. no YUV & scaling, but faster than raw X11 @@ -65,13 +66,18 @@ In order to make this work, be sure to check the following: It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be usable with MPlayer. - If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're - sure your card can do YUV conversion, +I.1. + a, If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're + sure your card can do YUV conversion, - 3dfx voodoo3/banshee users download a new DRI from - http://dri.sourceforge.net - - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 + http://dri.sourceforge.net (or possibly use X 4.1.0) + - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 (4.1.0 preferred) - nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from nVidia's website + b, The GATOS driver (for ATI cards) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means + that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If + playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh + rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz. 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say: Checking for Xv ... yes |