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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

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).

> Xv has been tested for a long time, and
> with this change crashes in VDPAU preinit will break MPlayer with
> default configuration completely.

I don't disagree but where do you see the possibility for crashes in preinit()?

> While I'd have to investigate more, VDPAU also seems to be a lot (like 4x)
> slower than xv when the "blit" engine is used

I will try to reproduce this. (How do I see if blit is used? With older nvidia
driers, I saw incredible tearing, but that is gone with 185.13.)

Carl Eugen