[compiz] compiz composited video and alpha only GLX pixmaps

[Matthias Hopf]

On Mar 15, 07 02:54:37 +0100, Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
> I don't know if this is possible, but could xvideo be extended to support 
> software generated xvideo adapters? If this would be possible compiz could 
> add itself as video adapter and the video players would not need to be 
> changed.

This would be a major extension to the Xserver, and can probably not be
done without the additional memcopy that compiz tries to avoid.
In time this *could* be implemented. It's probably of very low priority,
though.

Matthias

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