[MPlayer-dev-eng] DirectX

[Joey Parrish]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:11:54PM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2005 00:36, Forrest|JRWR|Woody wrote:
> > i hear that mplayer uses directdraw? how about a -vo for direct3d and do
> > like gl2, some cards like direct3d better then DD
> 
> Please enlighten me: How can we use direct3d for video playback and
> what cards don't like ddraw?
> The overlay support in directdraw is exactly what is needed for video 
> playback. I don't know if we could get this with direct3d.

Besides which, D3D9 has DD7 support still, and always should for old
games to work.

D3D9 buys us nothing, IMO.

--Joey

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