On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:30:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:07:29PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > for that matter, who uses the SDL flavor? how and why? afaik, newer > > > mplayer should be just as capable and fast at video rendering, and > > > there should be no need to use SDL for audio. > > > > I use the SDL flavor on sparc64 where there is no xv support. > > is there really a difference in playback quality/efficiency between > '-vo sdl' and -vo x11' ?
I think that, at least on some machines, sdl, can switch video modes, which x11 won't do, which gives you some "poor man's" zoom... useful on cards without xv, eg. nvidia (hint).
