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

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 21:41 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> Now the pause hacks have been removed, which makes the patch less
> actively harmful in the sense that it can be ignored or easily deleted
> later without affecting anything else; but OTOH that makes its
> deficiency as an overlay implementation more apparent than ever. I
> wouldn't want any frontends to start relying on it. IMO the included

Front-ends are already using vf_bmovl.  vf_overlay is a lot nicer for
front-ends, so can't it be pitched as a better bmovl?


> least there should be clear warnings that this functionality is not
> supported, may arbitrarily fail depending on other settings,

Refresh my memory: what other settings may cause it to arbitrarily fail?

(At least with the periodic update stuff removed, -double should no
longer be a problem.)


> and may be completely disabled or removed at any time.

Can the same be said about vf_bmovl, and if not, why not?