VLC + ATI +WIN2k

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 13 August 2001 6:49 pm, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> I have a P3/450 w 372 mb RAM, and  ATI All in Wonder Rage 128 Pro, running
> on Win2000 Advanced Server with SP2 and Directx8a installed. Playback is
> choppry and slow tih VLC. Any suggestions ? I have tried both video drivers
> supplied by ATI for this card in 2000.
> 

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do to improve the speed of VLC. The 
Win32 version is noticeably slower than it's Linux counterpart, and I don't 
really know why ( It won't be easy to find out why until I have profiling 
working under win32, anybody knows how to do this with mingw32? )

But you can still check that VLC is using DirectX overlay mode to display 
video. Run "vlc -vvv --stdout debug.txt", play just a few seconds of video 
and exit from vlc. After that, edit debug.txt and check that you've got the 
line: "DirectX YUV overlay created successfully"
If you don't have it, I would be interested in having a look at this debug 
file.

Anyway, a few speed improvements should make their way soon into vlc.

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Gildas