Re: Advice on Radeon 7000?
From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/30/03
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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:41:48 -0400
"Rob D." wrote:
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> Currently I'm using an ATI 3D Charger card (8MB). Using mplayer on a
> 1.1GHz Athlon, full screen divx movies can't be played without the
> framedrop option, and although it's not severe framedropping, I've had
> at least one other person laugh at how jittery it is.
>
> So, that sets up my question. I'm looking for an AGP 4x (motherboard
> limitation) card that'll allow me to watch movies fullscreen without
> dropping frames. Will the Radeon 7000 have enough muscle to allow this?
> What other cards might fit my criteria?
IIRC the entire Radeon line has hardware for video scaling, etc. Using
mplayer's "xv" output device will take advantage of this. (I certainly
had no problem with video on a similar Radeon on a 1GHz P-III with
mplayer. It's been a while though, so my memory is a little fuzzy.)
> I've also got a general driver question. In another post above it's
> mentioned that the X drivers for nvidia cards only support 2D
> acceleration, and that I'd have to use nvidia's binary drivers to get 3D
> acceleration (I'd like to avoid binary only drivers). Do X's drivers for
> other chip makers support 3D acceleration?
You'll need the Radeon DRI drivers from dri.sourceforge.net (open
source) to get 3D up and running on a Radeon 7000.
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