no hardware acceleration?

john wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Fri Jul 31 03:18:27 UTC 2009


On 07/30/2009 12:49 PM, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, john wendel<jwendel10 at comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> Not true. Software rendering refers to the display of 3D objects in OpenGL.
>>   Unless you have a very strange setup, mplayer won't be using OpenGL to
>> display video data.
>
> Not strange at all, actually mplayer can use OpenGL.
> # mplayer -vo gl

You're absolutely correct. I've never tried it before, but it works fine.

>
> I think mplayer will go through available output drivers till it finds
> one available.  So in some cases opengl output may occur.  Although if
> you installed properly from RPMFusion/Livna I don't think should
> happen.
>
>> I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I
>> use the "evil" Nvidia driver. The "nouveau" driver (which you probably have)
>> isn't quite ready for prime time.
>
> As I recall the "nouveau" driver was not shipped as default in Fedora
> 9, which I think the OP is using.
>
> I found nouveau pretty functional for 2D without any problems in
> F11-64 on my Geforce 5200.
>

Again, I stand corrected. My nouveau experience was with an earlier 
version than the one shipped currently. The F11 version seems to be 
working fine, playing 720P H264 video on a slow AMD cpu.

Thanks,

John




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