[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:06:28PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > Methinks that DGA is obsolete, so no need to require it.
> > > 
> > > Is it? We have a big section about it in the docs. And it doesn't require
> > > any additional libs.
> > 
> > AFAIR it's slower than xv or vidix and requires root privileges.  I cannot
> 
> sure, but works well on those old cards with no xv/vidix support, like s3
> trio, tseng 6000, matrox g100 etc.
> 
> and vidix needs root privs, too.

or svgalib_helper.

> > > By Windows DLLs. I prefer Linux libs over DLLs. At least loading them
> > > is more reliable, I understand. But OK, if anyone else tells me to drop
> > > it, I will.
> > 
> > But Windows DLL support is mandatory anyway, so the XAnim lib support
> > becomes kind of redundant.
> 
> on x86, maybe
> anyway i'm not sure win32 dlls work better than xanim native libs in
> all cases, as xanim codecs export yuv buffers, while most dll is rgb only

interesting. win32 dlls suck so much...

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rich