Around 3 o'clock on Oct 3, Peter Surda wrote:
> I don't understand what this fuss about hardware accelerated idct is. In which > situation you actually get use of it? When I play DVDs on my Duron 650 I get > over 50% free CPU time with a software-only dvd decoder (vlc), the card only > does yuv->rgb and scaling. It really only helps on older computers, but why > would anyone buy a radeon 8500 and put it in an old computer? Hardware accelerated iDCT and motion compensation saves energy on laptops. For my machine it should be the difference between not quite finishing a two hour movie and having battery left for hacking before and afterwards. When you're running on batteries, performance can often be measured in joules instead of seconds... [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
