[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: [Mplayer-devel] Help needed in Vidix successor!

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > we need volunteers who would help us making more drivers available in
> > vidix. The drivers should be ported from Xv or any other opensource codes.
> >
> > If anyone's fearing from Vidix, we're going to make an api redesign, to
> > eleminate pitches and make the API more simplier. In the future we will
> > able to compile vidix drivers as (linux) kernelmodules too, if one likes
> > this method (as by old mga_vid drivers).
> 
> How about writing some docs on how to transfer code from Xv drivers to vidix
> It would give a better starting point.

hmm. not a bad idea!

we should design the new vidix (xivid? :)) api to be as close to Xv API as
possible, but extending it a little bit to do direct rendering instead of sw
conversion & memcpy. xv already has control()-like stuff to set extra
options, brightness etc. if our api is similar enough, then converting xv
drivers can be done really fast.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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