[Cooker] Mixing intel+xaa+composite+xv

[J.A. Magallón]

Hi all...

Has anybody seen any solution to this problem ?
Currently you can't play video on an intel GMA card with compositing enabled.
I tried compiz and metacity-with-composite-manager-enabled, tried xine,totem,
vlc, and all fail. Problem is in the driver, clearly.
The solutions I have seen are no-gos:
- Enable EXA: it's damn slow
- Use plain X11, no Xv: also slow in low-end boxes (Aspire One?)
- Use gl-output: tricky for many apps and even slower...

So we can't have eye-candy and video on the same Intel graphics laptop.

Has anyone seen a solution ? Any beta driver to test ?
Are you going to put a ton of quirks/special cases/blacklist for instalation
on Intel graphics in 2009.1 (it's intel, forbid 3D desktop) ?

TIA

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[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 00:47 +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> Has anybody seen any solution to this problem ?
> Currently you can't play video on an intel GMA card with compositing enabled.
> I tried compiz and metacity-with-composite-manager-enabled, tried xine,totem,
> vlc, and all fail. Problem is in the driver, clearly.
> The solutions I have seen are no-gos:
> - Enable EXA: it's damn slow
> - Use plain X11, no Xv: also slow in low-end boxes (Aspire One?)
> - Use gl-output: tricky for many apps and even slower...
>
> So we can't have eye-candy and video on the same Intel graphics laptop.
>
> Has anyone seen a solution ? Any beta driver to test ?
> Are you going to put a ton of quirks/special cases/blacklist for instalation
> on Intel graphics in 2009.1 (it's intel, forbid 3D desktop) ?

This is known and has been for years. It's in the Errata going back to
2007.0. It's not just Intel. It's always the case when using compositing
with any driver.

With Intel you can try enabling the 'video' (or smth like that)
extension in ccsm; it's claimed to sometimes allow smooth Xv playback
with compositing enabled. With mplayer, at least.
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adamw

[Colin Guthrie-8]

Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 00:47 +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote:
>> Hi all...
>>
>> Has anybody seen any solution to this problem ?
>> Currently you can't play video on an intel GMA card with compositing enabled.
>> I tried compiz and metacity-with-composite-manager-enabled, tried xine,totem,
>> vlc, and all fail. Problem is in the driver, clearly.
>> The solutions I have seen are no-gos:
>> - Enable EXA: it's damn slow
>> - Use plain X11, no Xv: also slow in low-end boxes (Aspire One?)
>> - Use gl-output: tricky for many apps and even slower...
>>
>> So we can't have eye-candy and video on the same Intel graphics laptop.
>>
>> Has anyone seen a solution ? Any beta driver to test ?
>> Are you going to put a ton of quirks/special cases/blacklist for instalation
>> on Intel graphics in 2009.1 (it's intel, forbid 3D desktop) ?
>
> This is known and has been for years. It's in the Errata going back to
> 2007.0. It's not just Intel. It's always the case when using compositing
> with any driver.
>
> With Intel you can try enabling the 'video' (or smth like that)
> extension in ccsm; it's claimed to sometimes allow smooth Xv playback
> with compositing enabled. With mplayer, at least.

Yeah mplayer's xv layer has been patched to allow it to work with the
compiz video extension.

Not sure if other players have also adopted this? vlc seemed pretty
smooth for me the last time I tried it but I didn't look to see what it
was using...

FWIW, Intel's focus on the 2.5 series drivers is fixing EXA to not suck.
So fingers crossed.

Col

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