<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alan Cox wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1094913822.21082.72.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sad, 2004-09-11 at 08:24, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The problem to be solved (for future compatibility) is the following: 1. Is the X server local? If not, best for now is to shut down. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Surely if not send bitstream over the protocol </pre> </blockquote> This would have been nice, since it would allow decoding to take place in the local X server of a cheap EPIA board. Unfortunately, the protocol implementation in the X server is not complete, and just implements surface and context creation / deletion and capability querying. <blockquote cite="mid1094913822.21082.72.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2. What is the name of the XvMC Driver? One option would be to load in turn a number of known drivers and try to create a context. This will most likely fail if the wrong driver is used. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This sounds more and more like XvMC and DRI should be talking and using the same kind of logic. </pre> </blockquote> Yes, this would be possible by letting the X server side of XvMCCreateContext return the name of the driver as part of the non-device-private part of the info record. This would require a slight redesign of the protocol, and all existing drivers would need a change. At the very least this should be part of a new protocol revision, but for now I think we are stuck with the wrapper. Another possibility would be, of course, to parse the Xf86Config file. /Thomas <blockquote cite="mid1094913822.21082.72.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:xorg@freedesktop.org">xorg@freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>