[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.811,1.812

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Dec 1 17:12:36 CET 2004


D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:47:31PM +0100, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > +.B \-nodouble
> > +Disables double buffering.
> > +Double buffering fixes flicker by storing two frames in memory, and
> > +displaying one while decoding another.
> > +It can affect OSD negatively, but often removes OSD flickering.
> > +It needs twice the memory of a single buffer and thus will not
> > +work on cards with very little video memory.
> 
> I don't think there's any supported hardware where this is the case,
> though...

Remove the sentence then?  Or just specify how much "little" video
memory is?  How much is "little" in this case anyway?  Nowadays people
believe that 8MB of video RAM is little memory, so this should be made
explicit.

Diego




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