Re: Mandrake Packages for Xv improvement

Hi,

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:24, Matt C. Johnson wrote:
> I completely forgot what these Xv improvements are for, someone
> what to enlighten me?

Xv (or XVideo) is an extension to the X window system that gives 
access to the video playback capabilities of the graphic chipset. It 
allows to do some of the video processing in hardware that otherwise 
would have to be done by the CPU. For the nVidia chipset it's mainly 
color space conversions.

From the users point of view, you get better video playback with 
almost no framedrops for fullscreen DVD playback.

Regards,

Oliver



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