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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 07:10:04PM +0300, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> Also as I preliminary understand VMR7/9 require DirectShow
> initialization (I could be wrong) and I don't want to go that far.

I would strongly recommend to keep a possible extension to support DXVA
in mind. Currently it probably is quite unrealistic though.

> About -vo gl:yuv=1 - it's slower than DirectDraw. Much slower.

Hm. Since it works at all I guess you are not using an ATI card?
Use "-vo gl:yuv=2:force-pbo -dr -noslices"

> Try to
> run e real movie and observe CPU usage. Especially taking into account
> full screen or any size larger than the video itself. Try it ;)

Uh. If full screen makes things slower with these settings there is
something seriously wrong with your system or your drivers. Well, it
might just be Vista, though then D3D will have the same problem (it
might be a combination of Vista and bad OpenGL drivers though, then
a D3D vo would help).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger