[Bug 21780] compiz drop shadow is render usinged solid black over video surfaces

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21780


Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG




--- Comment #9 from Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com>  2009-05-17 10:28:13 PST ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> I just noticed that textured vs. overlay can be configured in
> gstreamer-properties as well.
> 
> When I try textured video I get a perfect experience meaning "low CPU usage",
> "movie playing surface follows window smoothly when I move it" and "the menu
> dropshadow is rendered correctly".
> 
> Is there any drawbacks to using this "textured video" as the default for
> Ubuntu? Does it work for all radeons?
> 

No drawbacks and it's supported on all radeons.  In fact on r5xx and newer
radeons, there is only textured video Xv.  The overlay is still exposed on
chips that support it (r1xx-r4xx) however since some users prefer it and the
overlay filtering is probably better on chips that can't support bicubic
filtering in shaders (r1xx/r2xx chips).  Textured video also has the advantage
of showing up on multiple heads while the overlay can only be sourced to one
crtc at a time.


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