[MPlayer-dev-eng] The future of XXX_VID drivers

David Holm dholm at telia.com
Sat Nov 17 21:04:36 CET 2001


Nick Kurshev wrote:

>Hello!
>
>After implementing of radeon_vid I have some suggestions about future of
>these drivers family.
>1. I've found that struct mga_vid_config_t should be expanded by vendor_id.
>2. It's gladly accepted to add new ioctl request: MGA_VID_QUERY_FORMAT
>3. In case when format is not supported, IMHO mplayer butnot vesa r vo_mga
>should decide what is best format in this case (looking at existing yuv2yuv or
>yuv2rgb stuff).
>4. IMHO word MGA is obsolete now and it would be better to raname it ;)
>5. What about hw support of saturation, brightness and gamma correction?
>IMHO these things are same as audio equalizer (which should be implemented too).
>6. Driver answer should be improved. (Currently if driver doesn't support some format
>vo_vesa writes : Your mga_vid_driver version is incompatible with mplayer
>that is lie.
>
>Best regards! Nick
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Won't a lot of these things be taken care of when I'm done with libvo2? 
When people start moving their devices to libvo2 they'll hopefully go 
through their code and resolve such issues...

//David Holm

But first, give me ao_pts =D




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