On Tuesday 28 October 2008, RC wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:30:02 +0200 > > Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote: > > This makes no difference, XV transfers the video as 12bpp (YV12) > > regardless of x11 colour depth. > > Point taken. I suppose with such a low BPP that would preclude > overwhelming the PCI bus at that resolution as well. Well it's not overwhelmed if it's keeping up ;) I've seen similar differences between PCI and PCIe myself. Maybe the Xv driver doesn't DMA?