[MPlayer-dev-eng] Removal of backing store

[Stephane Marchesin]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:30 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:31 +0200, Stephane Marchesin wrote:
>> >> It guess it's either rejected or still pending, since there's no
>> >> change in SVN. Is there anyone who has updates on this ?
>> >
>> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=119047
>> >
>> > Looks like backing store should be disabled for Xorg 1.5.0.
>> >
>>
>> Not 1.5 but 1.6. Btw mplayer played a good part in convincing us :)
>
> I think you confused the changes. It should be disabled in MPlayer
> because of 1.5.0; Xorg is apparently planning to remove it completely in
> 1.6.
>

No I didn't confuse things. I'm an X.Org developer, and we want to
remove backing store in 1.6 because it doesn't make much sense to have
it these days with composite managers, and applications like mplayer
misuse it.

Stephane