Re: Portrait Mode in X

Around 10 o'clock on Nov 25, "Mark Cuss" wrote:

> The application that we plan to use displays decoded
> MPEG2 that does a bunch of XvPutImage calls which would likely be pretty
> slow if the X server had to rotate each frame in software

The Mach64 "Tiny-X" driver supports rotated Xv overlays on top of a 
rotated shadow frame buffer for regular graphics.  Performance is not
a problem as the hardware is still doing the YUV->RGB and scaling.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab