[MPlayer-dev-eng] patch for stereoscopic support

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:14:46PM -0300, Gabriel Winckler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first time here, but I`ll to make it right.
> 
> Me and my friend (Denis Taniguchi), patched mplayer to have stereoscopic
> support, needed here in the lab that we work for.
> 
> After a long search, we couldn't find any player with this kind of thing
> for linux.
> 
> We made a small change in vo_gl2.c The diff is in vo_gl2.c.diff
> attached.
> 
> To simplify the implementation, we have created one other video output
> called gl2_stereo.
> 
> The patch for this installation is also attached
> (mplayer-stereoscopic.patch).
> 
> This stereo is based on Quad buffer Stereo. The input format is
> "side-by-side" with the "left eye" sided with the "right eye" in the
> same frame.

Can you explain why in the world a special vo is needed for this?? If
anything, all you need is a video filter (possibly down3dright?),
certainly not a special vo.

Rich