[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vf_eq2 extensions

[Daniel Moreno]

Hampa Hug wrote:

> This would probably be a good idea but I'm not sure the performance
> gain is worth the extra complexity. From my point of view it is
> not.

I agree.

> To settle this issue it would be interesting to know who uses
> these filters at all (and for what purposes). From the fact that
> there hasn't been a gamma correction filter in MPlayer for quite
> some time I conclude that most people do gamma correction somewhere
> else.

Personaly, I've never used "eq". It can be as fast as it wants, but... 
I've not yet found a video requiring brightness/contrast adjustment. 
Usually they're properly mastered.

For a very long time I used DGA and XFree's gamma controls. But it was 
anoying, since I had to go changing from 2.0 (videos) to 2.5 (desktop) 
and, even worse, I had flickering. (never got DGA's doblebuffering to work)

I tried to get overlay hardware gamma, but... XV seems completely 
unsuitable for this (I'm talking about the interface itself, not 
mplayer's implementation) and it doesn't look like known specs for 
rage128 allow independent gamma.

So, I use eq2 (and now even more, in fact I've aded it to mplayer's 
config file) to correct my monitor's gamma and play the videos at gamma 
2.0 so that they look line on TV.

If I could get XV to obey XFree's gamma settings, I'd never use any of 
those filters.


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