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Hello, |
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>On Saturday, October 22, 2016 05:28:22 AM David Haller wrote: |
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>> And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time. |
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>Unless things have changed massively in the last 3-4 years, you almost |
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>certainly were using xv without really knowing about it. With just 'x11', |
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>you're forced into using software scaling instead of hardware scaling, which |
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>massively slows things down. And hardware scaling has been a feature of |
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>essentially every video card since, I dunno, 1994 or earlier? And the xv |
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>extension has been available since 1991... |
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That was with Matrox Mystique 4 MB from 1996 and XFree86 3.3.6. |
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$ grep 'vo=' Backup/.../.mplayer/config:vo=x11 |
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I tried xv, and I guess it did not work as well as x11 ;) |
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-dnh |
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lp1 on fire |
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-- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages |