[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Xv Adaptor Selection

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Benjamin Zores <ben at geexbox.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  Are you joining the show of rule breakers?
>
>  Well, if you want to start a new flame war, go ahead, I don't mind.
>
>
>  >  First, you haven't read the manual,
>  >  we have "-adapter" option that does the same (for directx). Your patch
>  >  doesn't honor it.
>
>  I did but the purpose is way different.
>  -adapter is used by DirectX only and is used to select which graphic
>  card you want to use.
>  My patch keeps using the default graphic card, you can only choose Xv
>  Adaptor, so it is
>  absolutely correct having it as an xv suboption.

It have also been the original intension of the xv adapter. This is
why it have the name" adapter". There is no other way to select video
card from within established connection.
It is enough that both options have same names to bring confusion.

I do not ask you to remove the suboption, I ask you to honor the
global option too.