Xserver doesn't support XvPutImage to Pixmap?

[Keith Packard]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:05 +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> I think Xv is meant to also work for overlays, which obviously won't
> work on a pixmap. Maybe it's a safety so application developers don't
> do anything stupid.

Drivers are welcome to limit what applications can do with Xv, but the
core X server shouldn't prohibit legal operations like this (which can
work with some Xv backends, just not overlays).

Of course, older Xv implementations couldn't support pixmaps.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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