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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jason Tackaberry <t...@urandom.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:16 +0000, Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Hopefully the graphics system for Freevo2 will be able to take advantage >> of this API to accelerate the output and provide shiny OSD display etc :) > > Maybe. > > I have tested the Freevo 2 video pipeline with VDPAU and there are some > problems. In order to use VDPAU we would need to use > GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap in order to pull the video frame into a > texture we can use within clutter. > > On NVIDIA cards using Xv this works quite well. However with VDPAU, > there is some sluggishness (dropped frames). An NVIDIA 8500GT can do > 24p ok, and an 8600GT seems to be able to do 30p without dropped frames. > (This is with 2x AA.) But 60p is out of the question, at least with the > 8600. I have not tested any 9000 series, but based on specs alone, I > think a 9400 would behave about as well as an 8500. > > It seems that after VDPAU there is very little headroom left on the GPU > to allow for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap. > > Hopefully they do some optimization work. Alternatively, maybe there's > some way to share textures between processes. (If there is, it would > almost certainly require patching the player.) > Here is a thread that may be of interest. <http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126994&highlight=vdpau> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-devel mailing list > freevo-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
