First round of testing:
This took quite a bit of time.I've tried the drivers with different kernels and with various window managers and DEs (KDE,Gnome,LXDE,Openbox,IceWM,JWM,...) and Compiz Fusion.
9.11 runs fine.Everything works: OpenGL,3D,Compiz effects,but the 2D performance (resizing and moving windows) is extremely slow,using massive amounts of CPU time.
Unaccelerated 'Shadow Buffer' is 100x faster for
these operations.
Xine
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With Xine/gXine, the video still suffers from the zoom + fat scanlines issue.The player outputs this message when started from the commandline:
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and so on
MPlayer
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MPlayer plays the videos perfectly (without errors). Tried it with Xv video and OpenGL/2 output. Xv seems smoother when Compiz effects are enabled. With OpenGL output (single and multitextured),the video has occasional stuttering and uses a bit more CPU. XvMC output is not supported on ATI cards.
Coming up: Playback tests with VLC and tests with older versions of the Catalyst driver.
This took quite a bit of time.I've tried the drivers with different kernels and with various window managers and DEs (KDE,Gnome,LXDE,Openbox,IceWM,JWM,...) and Compiz Fusion.
9.11 runs fine.Everything works: OpenGL,3D,Compiz effects,but the 2D performance (resizing and moving windows) is extremely slow,using massive amounts of CPU time.
Unaccelerated 'Shadow Buffer' is 100x faster for
these operations.
Xine
----
With Xine/gXine, the video still suffers from the zoom + fat scanlines issue.The player outputs this message when started from the commandline:
Code:
lacing: 0 lacing: 3 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 3 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 3 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 3 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 0 lacing: 3 lacing: 0
.
.
and so on
MPlayer
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MPlayer plays the videos perfectly (without errors). Tried it with Xv video and OpenGL/2 output. Xv seems smoother when Compiz effects are enabled. With OpenGL output (single and multitextured),the video has occasional stuttering and uses a bit more CPU. XvMC output is not supported on ATI cards.
Coming up: Playback tests with VLC and tests with older versions of the Catalyst driver.
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