On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Fabrizio Ferraro wrote: > Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > thanks izio, that works > > Good! ;) > > > the video card is whatever is built into the eeebox, some intel card. > > the xorg.conf is running vesa at present ( i think) > > The VESA driver is really slow as it does not provide any sort of > hardware acceleration at all. I wonder how you can play decenlty a > 1280x720 video with your configuration. > > As far as I know, Intel provides official open source device drivers > which supports MPEG2 hardware acceleration on Intel's 8xx/9xx range of > integrated graphics chips, via the XvMC API. Unfortunately, Intel > hardware is not capable of h264 hardware decoding (like nvidia through > VDPAU), but the good news is that according to the mplayer output you > posted in the last message, in your country HD video is broadcast in MPEG2. > > You should definitly try to set up the Intel driver in order to have a > decent video output for HD broadcast. How to do it, depends on which > distro you're using. Most recent distros already ships the driver by > default, with some others you have to install a package. > > A simple way to discover which xorg video driver you are using at > present is to take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log > To see which video card is built in your eeebox, take a look at the > output of 'lspci'. > > Cheers, > izio > >
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