[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fixes/enhancements to vdpau

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:56 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Having the renderer as a separate process obviously lets us make sure
> we're flipping buffers at the right time, as you noted previously, and
> also vastly simplifies the degree to which we need to hack MPlayer,
> limiting things to a fairly straightforward custom VO.  The latter point
> is relevant if we ever hope to have those changes merged: experience has
> taught me the MPlayer hackers do not like it when patches touch core
> areas like timing. :)

If you mean the "periodic update" stuff you proposed earlier, there were
major reasons not to like that other than "what areas of code it was
touching".