Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 03:45:09 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen <freebsd@alson.linuxfreak.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avifile, TNT and hardware acceleration Message-ID: <20010527034508.C13125@md2.mediadesign.nl> In-Reply-To: <F5Qvdzhs1eAjT43krbU0000d94b@hotmail.com>; from per_hjeltman@hotmail.com on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:56:44AM %2B0200 References: <F5Qvdzhs1eAjT43krbU0000d94b@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:56:44AM +0200, Per Hjeltman wrote: > I am wondering if avifile can run hardware accelerated on a nvidia TNT based > card. Hardware acceleration seems to work well enough under X, but when I > start aviplay, I get the message "FATAL: No hardware acceleration detected!" > > I am running FreeBSD 4.3 and XFree 4.0.3 instead of 3.3.6. Any ideas would > be greatly appreciated. Thanks. BTW: hardware accel for aviplay is different from 3d accel, like GLX and DRI. the latter one is provided by X extensions like glx and dri, the first one is provided by the xvideo extensions try running xdpyinfo and look for extensions like Xvideo, Xv, or whatever. the should indicate some hardware support for video playback in the x server. according the docs there's hardware support for matrox cards and nvidia, though matrox requires a linux only kernel module, and for nvidia they seem to require the nvidia binary drivers (only for linux too afaik)... so i'm afraid there isn't much hardware acceleration available for freebsd... :( It may also work with the other video cards, but you will need latest driver. Refer to XFree86 4.0.2 documentation for details about XVideo extension support in various card drivers. just have a look at the xvideo extensions and friends... should work too, though for me hardware accel only works in linux with mga_vid kernel module, so i'm afraid the X nv driver in freebsd won't work either. Alson -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@linuxfreak.nl < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' YEEEHA!!! What a CRASH!!! --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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