[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vo_macosx: option to set shared buffer name to allow multiple instances

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Wed Dec 10 10:21:50 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:30:22PM +0100, Adrian Stutz wrote:
> 1) I will add the options to the man page as soon as I get to it.

Thanks.

> 2) I don't know of any other use for shared_buffer. It enables anyone to
> programatically obtain unscaled output frames from mplayer. For the shared
> memory to be useful, I think you'll always also need the NSConnection to get
> the size/depth of the frames and the callback to read them. So I guess it's
> only really useful to some kind of gui.

Ok, I was thinking if maybe it might have a performance advantage or
something, but I guess not. I don't have any more comments on it then.



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