[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] RFC: xv, composition managers and translucent windows

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:04:06AM +0100, Paul TT wrote:
> i've made up a very simple patch for xv and compositing managers.
> now it's fashionable to have an accelerated/translucent/shadowed-enabled
> xserver, but unfortunatly, almost on my computer, when turning the vo_xv
> window to an opacity < 1, xv behaves erraticaly, and the result is a
> transucent window, with a blue hue inside, and no video resulting.
> the patch simply lights up XV_ALPHA_MODE xv's attribute.
> 
> is a RFC, because i dont' really know if it's reasonable to make mplayer
> act the way i did in the patch, or maybe shoud be better to bound it to
> a config option, or maybe better, add a keystroke to manage opacity of
> the xv overlay...
> 
> what do you think?

IMO there is no obviously correct setting for this so it should better
be handled by some config tool, e.g. xvattr. Esp. since you seem to only
want it because of a driver bug?
If the problem becomes widespread this can be explained in the FAQ.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger