[compiz] video plugin?

[Matthias Hopf]

On Mar 09, 07 14:20:08 +0100, David Reveman wrote:
> > Have you mailed this patch to the mplayer mailing list? Though I doubt
> > they will allow a patch that interferes with the xv output plugin. It
> > probably should go into a new output plugin.
> 
> No I haven't mailed it to the mplayer list. I don't think it should be
> included in it's current state. Yes, it should go into a new plugin but
> this new plugin should still support xv output as you want to
> dynamically fall-back to that when the compiz interface isn't available.
> It should probably go into an xv-compiz output plugin but some code
> sharing between the existing xv module should probably be done then.

I guess the best thing would be if the new module would call the xv
plugin dynamically if needed. So the code paths would remain clean.

At least that's what I'll try to do with xine.

David, one more question about this rendering technique (have to admit
that I haven't looked at the code yet): are overlays still possible,
that is can I render with standard X / OpenGL calls over an YUV image
that has been blitted by compiz? That is needed for about all
on-screen-displays and subtitles, because they are typically rendered in
different resolutions than the main video.

CU

Matthias

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