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authorMichel Daenzer <michel@daenzer.net>2004-12-06 06:27:53 +0000
committerMichel Daenzer <michel@daenzer.net>2004-12-06 06:27:53 +0000
commit2b8ab42b05b32710fa4f71a25e2f84192e637fbd (patch)
tree9ca947b192ecd009d6e7a08ccde60d95b931bce8 /man
parent960d15ae3a44efe7c02a3d6d0acbabe63e07be74 (diff)
When direct rendering is enabled, use hostdata blits to transfer data from
system memory to video RAM, which should reduce CPU usage especially with larger videos. Can be disabled via Option "DMAForXv" if there should be any stability issues, but it's been stable for me during a week of testing. Based on a patch by Nikolaus Meine <meine@tnt.uni-hannover.de>. Probably fix endianness issues in some newer XVideo code, untested. Also use hostdata blits to transfer RENDER image data to video RAM to avoid idling the accelerator engine. Increases RENDER performance significantly for me. These changes were only tested on an M9 in a Titanium PowerBook but should work with all Radeons where direct rendering is supported.
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@@ -461,6 +461,12 @@ unsupported). The default is to
.B enable
Render acceleration.
.TP
+.BI "Option \*qDMAForXv\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Try or don't try to use DMA for Xv image transfers. This will reduce CPU
+usage when playing big videos like DVDs, but may cause instabilities.
+Default:
+.B on.
+.TP
.BI "Option \*qSubPixelOrder\*q \*q" "string" \*q
Force subpixel order to specified order.
Subpixel order is used for subpixel decimation on flat panels.