[MPlayer-dev-eng] Another SiS vidix issue
Thomas Winischhofer
twini at xfree86.org
Tue Oct 14 18:06:50 CEST 2003
Marcus Thiese wrote:
> Maybe I don't understand the structure of this VIDIX stuff but
> shouldn't it be possible to detect the overlay on runtime? Thomas
> Winschhofer's sisctrl can do it, so your driver should be able to do
> so to. I don't wanna sound unfriendly, I'm just not really happy whith
> having to set an environment variable when I want to watch a movie.
SiSCtrl doesn't directly access the hardware. It talks to the X Server,
and the X Server does the hardware handling.
> > I think the xvidix driver is a
> > great way to test VIDIX development, but Xv is a better option for
> > real playback, since it's better integreated with X11.
>
> But shouldn't the xvidix driver be faster? If it directly accesses the
> graphics card it should and I'm always heading for speed :-)
And what, if not "directly accessing the graphics card", do you think
the X Server does?
Thomas
--
Thomas Winischhofer
Vienna/Austria
thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net/
twini AT xfree86 DOT org
More information about the MPlayer-dev-eng
mailing list