[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] support for libXvMCW wrapper library

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/21/05, Wes Shull <wes.shull at gmail.com> wrote:
> libXvMCW is a wrapper which dlopens a proper libXvMC at runtime (which
> one it loads is configurable); it eliminates the need to link directly
> against a hardware-specific xvmc lib to support it.
> 
> The library originated in the Unichrome driver project (
> http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ ) but is useful for nvidia, etc.
> too.  It's in ATrpms, probably other places too.
> 
> Attached is a pretty simple mostly cut&paste patch to enable its use
> with mplayer.  It adds an --enable-xvmcw (and --disable-xvmcw) option,
> which must be used in conjunction with --enable-xvmc.
> 
> The patch is directly against configure, from today's (anon) cvs,
> which feels very wrong to me--it should be against configure.in.
> Except I can't find that.

The idea seems fine with me, but I have no idea how to test it (other
than seeing that it doesn't break compilation). What other packages do
I need, do I need to set another -vo, what's the expected
speed-up/quality enhancement, does it work with binary or free
drivers?
I personally never managed to make xvidix work on my machine, so that
might be of some interest for lame users like me.

Best regards,
Guillaume

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