[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] VFCTRL_PERIODIC_UPDATE

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:11 +0100, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > Check out vo_xover.  IIRC it does something similar.
> 
> This is Xv specific.
> The goal of his patch is to be VO independant (that's why it's a filter).

The functionality goal of the patch is to show an overlay from an
external program, matching current external program status rather than
anything specific to a certain frame. That's more a GUI/vo feature than
a video filter feature.