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From: David Haller <gentoo@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:34:29
Message-Id: 20161025014216.rzmnl5xsw5hemxap@grusum.endjinn.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer by Michael Mol
1 Hello,
2
3 On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Michael Mol wrote:
4 >On Saturday, October 22, 2016 05:28:22 AM David Haller wrote:
5 >> And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time.
6 >
7 >Unless things have changed massively in the last 3-4 years, you almost
8 >certainly were using xv without really knowing about it. With just 'x11',
9 >you're forced into using software scaling instead of hardware scaling, which
10 >massively slows things down. And hardware scaling has been a feature of
11 >essentially every video card since, I dunno, 1994 or earlier? And the xv
12 >extension has been available since 1991...
13
14 That was with Matrox Mystique 4 MB from 1996 and XFree86 3.3.6.
15
16 $ grep 'vo=' Backup/.../.mplayer/config:vo=x11
17
18 I tried xv, and I guess it did not work as well as x11 ;)
19
20 -dnh
21
22 --
23 lp1 on fire
24 -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages