Hello everyone
To just put some things in public:
Aviplayer is now able to use 'Direct' rendering - which means
images are directly decompressed into the X11 buffers -
for now this works for buffered YUV - this means very smooth
animation with autobalancing CPU Quality still available.
Futher speed could be gained dissable buffering (which will
be implemented later to make users with slower CPU more happy :)
What has been drastivaly improved is mode switching - now it
should work very nicely - actually if you use hw overlay then
pressing 'm' to maximize is now suggested for viewing movies.
Also special care has been taken for seeking - if aviplay was seeking
fast previously - well thats nothing compared with the current speed :)...
Just press cursor keys left/right - if the movie has keyframes at
reasonable intervals its like fastforward on VCR...
I think from other fixes - one might be important for user with just
X11 renderers - now it looks like SDL is drawing very fast
(comparable to mplayer's x11 driver)
AutoQuality has been fixed.
Benchmark utility has been lately fixed and improved to be giving
correct number so everyone could check the speed of his system.
I'll probably put some demo movie sample into CVS for this purpose.
To explain some switches here are some sample command lines:
Testing with hw overlay acceleration:
benchmark movie.avi -yuv -real
- this is how aviplayer works now with buffering)
benchmark movie.avi -yuv
- this is not available in aviplayer - but its basicaly the speed of
unbuffered player)
benchmark movie.avi -yuv -direct -real
- this is the speed of current aviplayer with Buffered Direct rendering
(to use it - turn on flag in Config/Misc - however it might crash
during the reopening of the movie - some bug is well hidden somewhere inside)
benchmark movie.avi -yuv -direct
- no buffering - direct decompression into the overlay memory - amazing speed
however its not available in aviplayer yet
of course same would apply to x11 drawing with the exception we do
not support -direct -real
happy playing
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