[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] VF Overlay

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 23:51 +0200, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> Do you still use it on Freevo ? If so I guess it'll simplify your 
> integration. Also is it problematic for you not to have the periodic 
> update any longer ?

No, we went in a fairly different direction by moving the video display
functionality completely out of MPlayer.

I wrote a VO that simply copies YV12 data into shared memory and writes
a frame notification packet to a fifo.  The other side picks it up, and
uses clutter to draw the frame, doing hardware YV12->RGB conversion in
GL.  Obviously this decision ties us to X (or at least the backends that
clutter supports).

The biggest question mark is vdpau.  But issues with hardware
acceleration have a way of becoming irrelevant over time as cpus get
faster. :)

At some point I'll submit vo_shm here.  But it's quite simple and
hopefully not very controversial.

Cheers,
Jason.