no hardware acceleration?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, john wendel wrote:

> Not true. Software rendering refers to the display of 3D objects in OpenGL. 
> Unless you have a very strange setup, mplayer won't be using OpenGL to 
> display video data.
>
> I've got a box with a geforce 5200 LE, and it displays video just fine if I 
> use the "evil" Nvidia driver. The "nouveau" driver (which you probably have) 
> isn't quite ready for prime time.
>
> I get the driver from the Nvidia website, but it can also be yummed from the 
> rpmfusion-nonfree repo.

I used yum.
Thanks.
Life is better now.

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