On Friday 21 October 2005 10:23 pm, Andy Poling wrote:
> Geoffrey Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I think if there was
> > any way to free up that last surface, those of us on slow machines with
> > xvmc would be golden. (Chroma Key OSd anyone) Just thought I would give
> > some feedback on what I noticed with this change.
>
> <cough> That would be me...
>
> I have recently picked back up the ball I totally dropped (sorry - my bad)
> a while back with the COSD.  I pulled a SVN about a week ago, and I've been
> re-integrating my changes to implement the COSD.
>
> At the moment, the COSD is mostly working, but I've gotten something wrong
> so that it is crashing when we leave playback.
>
> What my patch does is to essentially permanently neuter the Xv and XvMC
> playback code of any OSD processing and handling, while establishing a
> separate thread that does nothing but handle painting the COSD on the
> background window.

That's not going to get accepted.  Making things uglier for everyone just for 
some people with slowish systems isn't really a good idea.

Also, some newer video cards don't even _have_ an overlay anymore - no more 
chroma keying.

Isaac
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