[MPlayer-dev-eng] Writing a brand new D3D video output to fix Vista Aero disabling

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:35:06PM +0200, Sascha Sommer wrote:
> On Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> > Just to get myself started - could somebody point me to some kind of
> > "documentation" for MPlayer's video out interface? I just have a
> > couple of hours to take a look and I feel strange to start comparing
> > vo_directx.c and vo_gl.c just to see what's common in them :)
> 
> Great that you are working on this.
> 
> Some information can be found in DOCS/tech/libvo.txt
> Unfortunatelly vo_directx has become quit a mess ;(
> Feel free to ask questions if you don't understand some parts of it.

I can explain stuff about vo_gl.c, but for an example of a minimal vo
that uses the newer, saner API I suggest looking at vo_tga.c
In the long term, I think you will want to support much more than that
one does, but for starting it seems suitable to me.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger