[vlc] Re: New Streaming Problem

[Manu Abraham]

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2004 11:23 am, you wrote:
> Les LaZar wrote:
> > On Friday, March 26, Manu Abrham wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>The EPIA MB requires the kernel to be patched , i believe for the
> >> onboard, MPEG decoder. Using a generic VESA driver is like throwing away
> >> lot of computing power.
> >>
> >>Manu
> >
> > Yes, I realize the optimized CLE266 driver for the EPIA MB will improve
> > performance in some cases.  One of the questions that I have is whether
> > the CLE266 driver will impact the performance of any of the applications
> > that I am trying to use, including VLC and GnomeMeeting (whic uses X for
> > display).
>
> Do not think so. The MPEG decoder is used for the Video Out AFAIK. 


	Do you mean to say that even after patching X does not use the MPEG2 decoder 
onboard ? That sounds like a bad implementation ? Wouldn't there be a 
performance improvement rather than using the Generic driver ?

Regards,
Manu.


For
> plain X you need the full support of the Graphics chip, this means
> patching your XFree86 with the Via linux driver. This will give you Xv
> extensions (XVideo) support for all X applications.
>
> --
> Kind greetings,
>
> Jean-Paul Saman

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