XV ogle / mplayer interaction

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Thu Jan 26 01:00:06 PST 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 00:34, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

> What it turned out to be was that mplayer was clearing the
> "autopaint_colorkey", which caused ogle to no longer have XV set up
> the way it needed it.
> 
> It isn't clear to me who is in the wrong here.  Is the convention that
> programs are supposed to leave things the way they found them and
> mplayer is being sloppy or is the convention that every program needs
> to setup everything it needs and ogle isn't being careful enough to
> set things up the way it needs them?

Ogle needs to setup things correctly. IIRC I found the very same problem
some time ago with xine vs mplayer. Nowadays xine correctly setups Xv.

	Xav





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