On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:52:23PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:48:26 +0100
> pk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Attila Kinali wrote:
> > 
> > > IIRC only MPlayer and VLC still support DGA output.
> > 
> > ... and a whole bunch of fullscreen proprietary games, like Doom{1,2,3},
> > unreal tournament 200{3,4}, 
> 
> I wasnt aware of these.
> 
> > fullscreen apps using LibSDL etc...
> 
> Anything that uses libsdl is actually agnostic to the underlying system.
> It could (and should) work equaly well with a system that supplies only
> XVideo. 
> 

I think DGA was often used for "MSDOS-like" direct access to
framebuffer memory. Not really for video, but for fullscreen games,
demos, whatnot.

So dunno if XVideo helps with that..

-- Pasi

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