[Openchrome-users] patching mplayer with xvmc patch

[Xavier Bachelot]

Timothy Lee wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>> - do i need to patch mplayer to use hw acceleration?
>>>     
>> Yes, Ivor's patch was never accepted upstream, I don't know exactly 
>> why, so you do need to patch it to make use of the hardware acceleration.
>>   
> I think one of the reason is that his patch breaks mplayer for non-VLD 
> accelerated drivers.  What I've attempted to do is provide support for 
> both VLD and non-VLD accelerated XvMC drivers.
>> Shameless plug, could you please try to push your patch in upstream 
>> mplayer, Timothy ? This'll solve once and for all the patching trouble 
>> to everyone.
>>   
> That's what I have in mind, and I've sent this patch to Ivor to review, 
> but I haven't received any feedback from him.  I'm hoping that with 
> sufficient testing from openchrome users, the patch is mature enough for 
> submission to the mplayer developers.
> 
> Regards,
> Timothy

I tried the patch on a Epia M10K. mplayer plays a standard dvd smoothly, 
cpu usage is in par with xine (8-10 %). I'll try with other (non-mpeg2) 
materials as time permit.

Oh, and btw, the mplayer Fedora 7 i386 rpms are available in the epia 
repo (based on Livna version plus Timothy's patch).

Regards,
Xavier