[MPlayer-dev-eng] Removal of backing store

[compn]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:44:20 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:31:54PM +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Sébastien Mazy <melyadon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just to know, has Stephane Marchesin's suggestion been finally
>> > accepted/rejected/still pending?
>> >
>> 
>> It guess it's either rejected or still pending, since there's no
>> change in SVN. Is there anyone who has updates on this ?
>
>Well, personally I think the discussions were long but did not really
>answer anything.
>I have no idea why _just_ enabling backing store "must" enable window
>redirection if it just causes issues, I also do not know how that
>fallback to textured video (which seems to be the reason why this
>matters at all) is supposed to work at all (since textured video
>does not support color-keying AFAIK), and lastly it also disables
>backing-store for e.g. vidix where automatic drawing of color-key
>is not even available.

i think he wants a solid answer.

>Maybe the backing-store implementation is indeed so completely stupid
>that it never makes sense, but conceptually I think the "right" solution
>would be to only disable it for xv:ck-method=auto and xvmc:ck-method=auto

good idea to change it, but current patch rejected?

-compn