[MPlayer-dev-eng] More about strides... :-m

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:18:36AM +0100, Daniel Moreno wrote:
> >Supporting
> >strides just means handling the case where line2 does not begin
> >exactly width bytes from line1. There's never an excuse for not
> >supporting arbitrary strides unless your filter is doing sketchy
> 
> Yes, I understand. But then... when do slices come in?  :-m  It's really 
> confusing.

Slices only come in if you implement draw_slice. However, right now I
don't think any filters support slices -- the api is somewhat messy
and/or broken except in the case of no filters (slice rendering direct
from codec to vo). So you can probably ignore them.

Rich