In our case, it isn't necessarily on the i810. We don't really care what accellerator is used as long as it works well for textures and stenciling. Depth buffering is a bonus, but not necessary for the majority of things that we do. Dest alpha, on the other hand IS. Right now we're evaluating using the MGA- it is slower than NVidia's solutions, however we can modify the source.
We don't even care if the graphics are displayed on the computer's screen. What counts for us is live, real-time, reliable video overlay. We have a hard-realtime constraint in our rendering times- We must render (input and output) 30 FPS or the fans at home (not to mention the broadcasters themselves) notice/get annoyed. Can you imagine what the fans would think if they had to deal with frame-drop on TV? (!?!) -Roberto JP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Carl Busjahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:39:32 -0400 >Maybe I'm just paranoid, but why so much on the i810? This chipset is >slower than Mach64, and people never got it in the intention of doing >games, or other intense graphics. > >Roberto Peon wrote: > >>I'd be happy to get to work making grabbing facilities, etc (for mga, which seems to >be the most stable accellerator) but for lack of experience and not much of a place >to start.. >> >>On the other hand, I'm getting paid to do it (part of my job), so chances are I'll >complete it. >> >>Any pointers would speed things up. >> >>The application (for the company) is: >>Real time video into (main memory) RGBA surface from SDI based video card >>Blit from that surface to FB in accellerator. >>Render with dest alpha in the accellerator. >>blit from the FB surface to the SDI based video card for SDI output. >> >>In other words the lacking pieces match up nicely with integrating XVideo and the >DRI to some extent. >> >>Any pointers would help. >> >>We really want to move away from O2s and NT boxs. Blech they leave a bad taste in my >mouth. >> >>-Roberto JP >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Dri-devel mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
