[Xcb] Xcb vs XVideo

Christoph Pfister christophpfister at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 09:44:12 PDT 2008


2008/7/8, Barton C Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu>:
> As you have noticed, both XCB and Xlib have C bindings for
>  the XVideo extension to the X protocol; Xine has chosen to
>  use XCB's.  I can't speak for the folks in the Xine project,
>  who you should probably ask about their design choices.

Xine supports both xlib and xcb. Xcb support is limited to shm and xv,
whereas xlib plugins also include opengl and xvmc.

<snip>
>         Bart

Christoph


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