[MPlayer-users] opengl pipeline modification

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 07:13:40PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le tridi 13 messidor, an CCXVIII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> > Why do you want to double the frames? If it is for 3D, putting left and
> > right side into different frames really is not a good idea,
> 
> AFAIK, that is how a lot of binocular projection systems work: left-eye and
> right-eye images are projected alternatively at twice the framerate, and LCD
> glasses blind alternatively the right eye and the left eye of the watchers.

If that flipping was software-controlled (it almost certainly is not), that
would make it an even worse idea: since the vo can buffer only one frame,
you would not be able to redraw the 3D image while MPlayer is paused if
you split the frames.