[MPlayer-dev-eng] Blue background

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi Ivan,

Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> Alexander Strasser said:
> >   If you are using vo xv which could be the case as blue isn't
> > MPlayers internal default for colorkey you must tell vo xv to
> > use and set mplayers default colorkey.
> >
> > This options would set it to black for example:
> > -colorkey  -vo xv:ck=set
> >
> > To the other developers:
> >   I am currently thinking about making vo xv by default use
> > the mplayer internal colorkey for more consistent behaviour.
> > But at least in the past, it always used the key set in Xv.
> > IOW comments are welcome.
> 
> I don't recomend using pure black, as it is already used in many GUI elements,
> and they will become transparent when placed over the overlay. Any dark color
> could do the trick.
> 
> The this blue is chosen because like in the real "Blue Room" effect it is not
> widely used.
> 
> Anyway, beastd I think that probably drawing the key after PutImage, would be
> less visible (this also involve ugly variables like one in xvmc)

You are probably right. Maybe I'll do it like you did in xvmc. But I am still
a bit undecided about how to implement it.

  Alex (beastd)