On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:32:54 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > >Thor Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>Greetings (and mucho thanks for the -norestart option for Xhost oddities)! > >> > >>I have a new boneheaded question: > >>What is the difference between xv (as used in mplayer, ogle, etc) and > >>XVideo? > > > > > >I don't know it for sure, but it's the same. XVideo is an interface to the > >XServer to allow a fast display of video. With XVideo you can for example > >get access to the backend scaler of the graphicscard and let the > >graphicscard > >scale the video to fullscreen. > > > >But this depends on the used graphicscard and for each graphicscard you > >need > >a special driver, which we don't have for Cygwin/XFree86. > > > > You know, we might be able to quite simply add such functionality... I > believe that DirectDraw exposes the scaling support of the video card. > Shoot, even the GDI blit function can accelerate scaling (if I recall > correctly). Anyone care to find a few docs on what XVideo drivers must > provide (so I don't have to do all of the searching myself)?
xc/doc is your friend. Alan.
