video playback on ATI Rage 3D Pro

[Dexter Filmore]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:09:56 -0500
Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 17.12.2005, 19:20 +0100 schrieb Dexter Filmore:
> > Hm, I just tried xine with Xshm for fun. *That* looks proper, but eats CPU
> > cycles like popcorn. So I guess I'll have to upgrade the card.
> 
> Xshm means scaling in software. The only difference to standard X11 is
> that it communicates with the server through shared memory, which
> reduces memory copying overhead. What you really want is Xv.

I know - but Xv looks horrible, and I can't figure why.