[MPlayer-dev-eng] VIA Mplayer fork

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:37:38PM +0100, Jiri Svoboda wrote:
> > > > just for info - VIA forked MPlayer for they CLE266 architecture...
> > > > 
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/vemp 
> > > 
> > > yeah, and as Ivor Hewitt already said in the Unichrome 
> > mailing list...
> > ...
> > > Patching the base X11 and FB vo modules with "vmi_" 
> > additions rather 
> > > than adding new video out drivers. nice.
> > 
> > uhh.
> > also note, that i'm also working on cle266 support (in g2), 
> > sponsored by
> > some small company here. maybe i'll be able to make a clean port/mix
> > of the via drivers for g1 in the near future.
> 
> Let me ask some questions about CLE266 support (current and in
> development)... And current state of drivers
> 
> 1) Framebuffer support (not X based) - is there hw accel for decoding of
> mpeg(4) available for framebuffer (directfb, svgalib...)?

these are useless, as they are not overlay-based and thus subject to
tearing. you must use an overlay based vo driver, e.g. vidix or maybe
dfb with overlay support, for usable video on console.

rich