[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH]Prefer vdpau over xv if available

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:06:31AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>>> Attached patch would revert r28688.
>>>> Since I expect it to be controversial, I'll not commit before comments
>>>> were made.
>>>
>>> "Why" is the obvious question.
>>
>> Hardware de-interlacing and simpler usage of hardware-decoding (-vc ff..vdpau vs
>> -vc ff..vdpau -vo vdpau).
>
> Well, it's a bad solution for this, getting rid of the need for -vc
> would be more useful, and will happen one day.

You can start reviewing the patch for this at:
<https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-April/061201.html>

Then, get_format() can be arranged for auto-selection of that.