[MPlayer-dev-eng] Removal of backing store

[Benjamin Zores]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:17:09PM +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Reimar Döffinger
>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>>>> Backing store doesn't affect Xv windows.
>>> That is contradicting yourself, if it didn't affect Xv windows there
>>> would be no need to disable it.
>>> Maybe it does indeed not affect the colorkey-drawing, that is possible,
>>> but I have no clue.
>> When you have a hw overlay, backing store affects only the colorkey,
>> not the video pixels. If the purpose of the backing store in mplayer
>> is to repaint the colorkey, automatic colorkey repainting handles it
>> for you.
> 
> That is not completely correct, automatic colorkey repainting is not
> always available, and in rare cases has issues (which is why MPlayer has
> an option to disable it). I also do not know if it can handle cases
> where people actually use the color key, e.g. frontends might use
> it to draw their own OSD with little effort.

Just my 2cents but we're talking about one simple flag.
Why not simply add an option to vo x11:xv to enable/disable backing 
store and have disable by default and we're done with it ?

Ben