[MPlayer-dev-eng] Xvideo Extension

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Fri Aug 6 21:07:47 CEST 2004


On Friday 06 August 2004 15:47, Billy Biggs wrote:

>   There is discussion going on about what to do with XVIDEO by Keith
> Packard and Eric Anholt, you might want to talk to them.  One option is
> to implement XVIDEO by always using OpenGL:

Ick. This option is already available for many cards, and, it's buggier and
slower than to use the overlay hardware... Not only have they broken Xv
but now they want to break it even more and replace it with something
slower? Sigh. Oh well, there's always vidix.




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