On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:52:55 -0800 Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net> wrote:
Also, another question about SDL and DGA. If I understand them correctly, they're both about bypassing the X server and writing directly to the framebuffer. I can get both -vo sdl and -vo dga working. However, they don't seem to reduce the CPU consumption by the X server process. The docs also suggest -vo sdl:dga, which doesn't work on my box. However, I'm curious how sdl:dga mode works. It seems to me that SDL and DGA are two implementations of the same thing, while the docs seem to suggest that they're complementary and can be used together.
Nope, they are competely different. SDL is a "multimedia" library that has several output modules (see www.libsdl.org) and that hides most of the system stuff. DGA is an video output system that works together with X (dont know the internals of it). do some RTFM and try sdl:aalib sdl:x11 and such BTW: sdl is slower than any "direct" mode as it needs one more copy but allows to scale even on systems that dont have Xv or a special driver. Attila Kinali -- I am a moslem, i am a terrorist.