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

[compn]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:41:56 +0300, "Ivan Kalvachev" <ikalvachev at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

well afair, -adapter is also used for different screens, like tv out.

it might also be nice to follow vo_directx and list the available adapters in -v output instead of having to use xvinfo (which outputs a lot of crap).


>
>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.

i think -adapter = -display , maybe iive will merge these two options? :)

-compn