[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] rc2 at the beginning of October

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:16:00AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:18:10 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > > I agree, but the old mga_vid detection code which got
> > > removed by Diego and Ivan should be put back before that.
> > 
> > Why?  Checking for the existence of device files is fundamentally
> > broken.  IMO the hardware-specific vo drivers should be enabled by
> > default, MPlayer will fall back on the more general but slower ones
> 
> I agree with Ivan that only a few people have Matrox graphic
> cards, so it does not make sense to enable them by default.
> They should rather be autodetected. Either by using lspci
> output, trying to find /dev/mga_vid* or any combination thereof.

The disadvantage of this autodetection is that you have to recompile
MPlayer after you have set up mga_vid...

> But currently the drivers are _disabled_ by default, which
> is definitly a regression.

You can see it that way, yes.

Diego