[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] -volume

[The Wanderer]

RC wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:21:50 -0400 The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Um... I don't quite see how the mention of "drivers" explains why
>> someone would want to use '-contrast' instead of '-vf eq2'; if
>> anything, it would seem to me to do the reverse.
> 
> Well 'video output drivers' means that it's setting contrast as a
> ctrl in hardware, rather than software,

I did not read it that way; it would seem equally plausible to me that
it could still be being done in software, by the driver itself. (Not to
mention that "video output drivers" maps neatly enough to "video output
methods", and not all of those are directly using hardware by any means...)

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