Alan Cox wrote:
>>>     Xapp->sharedmemory->X->gart->Video Card
>>>
>>>but unless things have changed XFree86 agpgart doesn't support remapping the
>>>shared memory pages directly into the GART and referencing them.
>>
>>So it doesn't work with the XVideo extension?
> 
> 
> XVideo may well use the GART to do image transfer if appropriate, but it
> will be doing one PC memory copy typically before X/Gart do their bit.
> 
> 
>>Do you know any example that works with by making yuv data available to 
>>the gfx card? A deinterlacing app would probably benefit from using such 
>>a transport.
> 
> 
> XVideo can supply YUV format data to the card, but it does go via the server
> at a small cost. I don't know if any of the DRI capable cards support YUV
> textures

Perhaps someone should have a look at the vidix interface in mplayer? 
It aims to be a back-end independant interface to H/W video 
acceleartion.  It might be worth a look in the long run...

-justin






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