Marcus Thiese wrote:

Maybe I don't understand the structure of this VIDIX stuff but shouldn't it be possible to detect the overlay on runtime? Thomas Winschhofer's sisctrl can do it, so your driver should be able to do so to. I don't wanna sound unfriendly, I'm just not really happy whith having to set an environment variable when I want to watch a movie.

SiSCtrl doesn't directly access the hardware. It talks to the X Server, and the X Server does the hardware handling.

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I think the xvidix driver is a great way to test VIDIX development, but Xv is a better option for real playback, since it's better integreated with X11.

But shouldn't the xvidix driver be faster? If it directly accesses the graphics card it should and I'm always heading for speed :-)

And what, if not "directly accessing the graphics card", do you think the X Server does? Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org