Xv Xdbe combination

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 07:54 +0200, Matthew Fincham wrote: 
> 
> I am trying to display scaled video with text and pixmaps (amongst other 
> things) "overlayed". I have Xv working, but when the overlay (to be 
> clear, this is not an Xv overlay) is drawn the overlay flickers. So I 
> need use Xv, but with double buffering.
> 
> My first attempt was to use Xv to draw to a pixmap instead of a window, 
> only to find out that Xv does not support this (at least it looks like 
> the Intel driver doesn't support this).

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21143 . It shouldn't be
too hard to finish up the patches floating around for this, someone just
needs to do it.


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