[MPlayer-dev-eng] Help needed in Vidix successor!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 01:10:35AM +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we need volunteers who would help us making more drivers available in vidix.
> The drivers should be ported from Xv or any other opensource codes.
> 
> If anyone's fearing from Vidix, we're going to make an api redesign, to
> eleminate pitches and make the API more simplier. In the future we will
> able to compile vidix drivers as (linux) kernelmodules too, if one likes
> this method (as by old mga_vid drivers).

Woohoo, THANK YOU! Having to run a movie player as root is super-brain
damaged IMO -- glad to see this will finally be resolved for our
matrox-deprived friends. :)

> Why not Xv (+dri) ?
> 1, Becouse it's Xfree86 only! With our technologie
> you don't need X at all.
> 2, Xv drivers uses memcpy's and incredible loops for conversion.
> We don't need them as we have the nice colorspace conversion code,
> mostly written by Michael.

Not to mention it's mad slow. (Of course that's largely a result of
your #2, but many people don't realize that.)

Rich