texturedvideo adapter truncated in fullscreen

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Feb 25 01:46:15 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:26 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 23:53 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > Oh, and also I had to invert the adapters order (texturevideo in #0 and
> > > overlay in #1), otherwise no way to test it. But as it seems to use a
> > > bit more CPU, maybe the order should be dependant on wether composite is
> > > activated.
> > >   
> > 
> > mplayer -vo xv:port=74 did the trick here (xvinfo says that the textured
> > adaptor is #1 with ports 74-89).
> 
> Ah, silly me ! I read the manpage too fast and tried xv:port=1 ...
> Anyway, as it's not so easy in totem and xine, and using the cmdline
> isn't so hype these days, I think it may make sense to use texturing by
> default with composite.

Possibly, or it might be even better if the video players become
smarter, e.g. using the overlay when their window isn't redirected (say
in fullscreen mode) and a textured port otherwise (or when the overlay
isn't available). Or, if we can make both adaptors work equally well,
maybe we could merge them to a single one which automagically switches
between overlay and textured as appropriate :). One can dream...


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