[MPlayer-users] ati mach 64 and redhat 7.1

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Fri Oct 24 21:43:18 CEST 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:27, Bret Hughes wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I have been working with mplayer and have been able to script the
> playing of an small mpeg(20MB) movie.  However when I scale it I see
> that it chews up all the cpu on my 700Mhz duron.  I assum this is due to
> the software scaling that is occuring since afaics, Xvideo is not
> availible.
> 
> I have read and reread the docs and currently believe that I will need
> to get Xvideo working inorder to off load the scaling to the video card.
> 
> Is this correct?  I found a howto on compiling DRI and gatos (I think
> through the mplayer docs but maybe not)  Before I launch down this path
> I thought I would ask if this is the right move.
> 
> info
> 
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
> 
> $ rpm -q XFree86
> XFree86-4.1.0-49
> 
> >From lspci -v
> 
> 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro
> (rev dc) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> 	Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0044
> 	Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> 	Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
> 	I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
> 	Memory at defff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> 	Expansion ROM at defc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> 	Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
> 
> xvinfo:   
> 
> $ xvinfo
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
> no adaptors present
> 
> 
> Thanks for any tips
> 
> Bret
> 
Is this off topic, too specific, not enough info or what.  Looking for
some guidance here.

Also, where is a working searchable archive of this list?  the link at
the bottom of the list messages does not seem to work.

I see that looking at my post I neglected to post the command line I am
using:

mplayer -framedrop -slave  -quiet -vo sdl -fs  $f1 </dev/null

I needed the framedrop to get the video to keep up with the audio.

TIA

Bret




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