[Bug 220444] x11-servers/xorg-server crashes on attempt to play a video using VDPAU

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--- Comment #7 from Mikhail Teterin <mi at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #6)
> try to explicitly set Option "DRI" "2" in xorg.conf
Yep! This worked. The video plays in the "vdpau" mode now, no crashes. Thank
you!

I wonder, what I am missing, however, by not using DRI3 -- previously, mplayer
could play using "gl" and "xv" modes without an obvious difference. Now it can
also do VDPAU -- is there some kind of hardware acceleration now, that was not
used before?

Would using DRI3 offer such an acceleration even if DRI2 does not? Playing
YouTube videos inside Firefox, for example, still causes the browser to use 2-3
CPUs (according to top(1)), plus the Xorg process using 20-30% (I have 4
cores).

Should Firefox be able to use vdpau as well -- and consume less CPU as a
result?

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