[MPlayer-dev-eng] DxVA in MPlayer

[Georgi Petrov]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 14:37 +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
>> The problem, which was mentioned are the subtitles. In case we don't
>> do readback, how are we supposed to render subtitles? I'm pretty sure
>> that EVR supports, how should I explain it, "surface mixing". Can't we
>> just render subtitles on top of the video surface?
>
> Yes, and that is in fact the preferred method. VDPAU also does that.
>

Then I think that there is nothing that would stop us from beginning
to implement initial support for this combination: Custom EVR
presenter, DxVA 2 H.264 support, no readback functionality and
overlaid (mixed on top) subtitles.

What do you think?