On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:41:56AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> 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).
> 

man mplayer
/-vm

or perhaps you mean DGA?  mplayer supports that too ...

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