[MPlayer-dev-eng] Another SiS vidix issue

[Thomas Winischhofer]

Marcus Thiese wrote:
 > Maybe I don't understand the structure of this VIDIX stuff but
 > shouldn't it be possible to detect the overlay on runtime? Thomas
 > Winschhofer's sisctrl can do it, so your driver should be able to do
 > so to. I don't wanna sound unfriendly, I'm just not really happy whith
 > having to set an environment variable when I want to watch a movie.

SiSCtrl doesn't directly access the hardware. It talks to the X Server, 
and the X Server does the hardware handling.

 > > I think the xvidix driver is a
 > > great way to test VIDIX development, but Xv is a better option for
 > > real playback, since it's better integreated with X11.
 >
 > But shouldn't the xvidix driver be faster? If it directly accesses the
 > graphics card it should and I'm always heading for speed :-)

And what, if not "directly accessing the graphics card", do you think 
the X Server does?

Thomas

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