[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Display framedropping state in the OSD

[Diego Biurrun]

Paul TT writes:
 > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:44:48 -0500
 > D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
 > > > [...]
 > > > on the OSD depending on whether framedrop, hardframedrop or no
 > > > framedrop is currently enabled.
 > > 
 > > ROTFL!!! WTF do you think happens if the video is already playing too
 > > slow, and the user hits "d" to turn on framedrop and all the sudden
 > > osd appears? :) Yep, you guessed it! It gets even slower!
 > > 
 > > In some ways the feature makes sense, yes....but it also could be
 > > really counter-productive. Even worse would be when switching
 > > framedrop back _off_, since then you can't drop frames to make up for
 > > the slowdown of osd, so a/v will desync...
 > 
 > i like a lot this patch, because i have ever to guess the state of framedrop :(
 > 
 > IMHO it could be very good maybe only to notify it when framdrop is
 > off, so not to slow down video and sync.

Fully agree.

 > it's there a way to tell framderop state on command line output too?
 > so you don't fuckup video with osd when you are slow, but notify it anyway to the user.

See -framedrop, -noframedrop, -hardframedrop.

Diego