[MPlayer-dev-eng] announcing ncmjb

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:00:48PM +0200, zstegi wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 27.07.2010, 20:39 +0200 schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:26:25PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > If I had a lot of spare time and motivation, I'd probably try to write
> > > a stub libGL (well, even reusing the X11 indirect GLX protocol might
> > > be an option if it's fast enough) that forwards the GL instructions to
> > > the Java App which then executes it to render the video with colourspace
> > > conversion, OSD rendering and all those other features that -vo gl
> > > offers...
> > 
> > Chromium (http://chromium.sourceforge.net) which VirtualBox uses to forward
> > OpenGL from the guest OS might actually be quite useful for this.
> > I didn't test much, but MPlayer -vo gl performance seemed ok-ish from a
> > VirtualBox guest to me...
> 
> sorry for the performance-part but that wasn't a design-goal from the
> start. it has to work even opengl is not available. i want extend, that
> it was developed on a netbook, so it is fast enough for what i need it
> for. but thanks for the hint with chromium, i will take a look.

Oh, I didn't mean to tell you specifically, it was just some general
comments.
However, OpenGL also has the advantage of a nice-looking OSD when you
play low-resolution videos in fullscreen, even if you don't care about
performance :-)