Messages in this thread | | | From | Prakash Punnoor <> | Subject | Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1? | Date | Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:50:28 +0100 |
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Am Sonntag Januar 1 2006 15:21 schrieb Alexander E. Patrakov: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > What you have here is a bit of a gray area; you're using one of the > > maybe-illegal binary modules that has a really long history of > > introducing bugs that, just from the oops, may appear unrelated to this > > module, and you can't reproduce it without. Just not because the bug > > won't happen, but because you state that the application that triggers > > it won't run without it. > > Wrong. The "nv" driver supports xvideo, and does this better than the > official "nvidia" driver. When I had a GeForce 2 MX 200 (now this card > is dead), my computer was was fast enough to play DVDs with > deinterlacing with the "nv" driver, but not with "nvidia". Probably due > to improper MTRR setup done by the "nvidia" driver.
It depends on what you call "better". If you want to watch HD resolution videos w/o stutters, you need the Nvidia one, as the nv one just wastes CPU cycles.
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