On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:09:32 +0000 (GMT), Michèl Alexandre Salim <salimma1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Currently running the XFree 4.0.2 from RH 7.0.90 (7.1
> beta, Fisher) on top of my RH 7 + Ximian system and
> when using aviplay it doesn't use any acceleration
> features at all, consequently choppy display. The same
> file plays much better in Windows.

Get the XFree ati.2 drivers from http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/,
and you will have hardware scaling. DRI is not supported yet.

> Xdpyinfo shows that Xvideo and Xrender are both
> loaded, so I presume they *should* work.

xvinfo is a bit more informative about these things.

Ion

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