[MPlayer-dev-eng] Hardware acceleration with fbdev

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:17:18PM +0200, David Kuehling wrote:
> 
> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:12:49PM +0200, Roman Byshko wrote:
> >>> 
> >> And another general question. What is the state of vidix? I've browsed
> >> the svn history and mailing list. There is no so much going on. Are
> >> vidix API and drivers in legasy state?
> 
> > VIDIX is legacy code in a general state of disrepair.
> 
> Hopefully you're not going to remove it?

The threat of removing XYZ seems to be the only thing that drives
people using XYZ out of the woodworks...

> There a some embedded systems around which are not capable to run X,
> or won't have an accelerated X driver available. VIDIX makes it easily
> possible to support these devices, without having to code a full 'vo'
> driver. MPlayer is probably the most leightweight OSS video player
> around, making it a good match for embedded systems.
> 
> (BTW I'm the developer of a VIDIX driver for the Ingenic jz47xx SOC for
> use with the NanoNote -- http://sf.net/projects/mplayer-jz47xx/).

Why have you created a sourceforge project for this, but not submitted
it here?  Or are you using the external vidix.sf.net version?

Diego