[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix for VDPAU green background

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:43:30AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Vlad Seryakov wrote:
> > While using VDPAU output, there is green background every time the video window got resized or
> > obscured by another window. It has nothing to do with colorkey which work for xv driver, it turned out
> > that VDPAU has its own background color and for some reason it used green color, setting X11 colorkey
> > to any value has no effect on VDPAU background.
> > This patch just sets default background to black, i though about introducing a parameter but is it
> > really useful to have ability to change default background for video window?
> 
> While selecting a color other than green may be less obvious and make sense
> for MPlayer, the particular selection of black (0, 0, 0) is a very bad idea;
> that's likely to be a pretty common color and hence cause artifacts to show
> up if windows are placed over the top of the MPlayer window.

Which answers the question I just asked on -cvslog, thanks.