Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:41:56AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:49:44PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:30:04PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: >>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:07:29PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: >>>>> for that matter, who uses the SDL flavor? how and why? afaik, newer >>>>> mplayer should be just as capable and fast at video rendering, and >>>>> there should be no need to use SDL for audio. >>>> I use the SDL flavor on sparc64 where there is no xv support. >>> is there really a difference in playback quality/efficiency between >>> '-vo sdl' and -vo x11' ? >> I think that, at least on some machines, sdl, can switch video modes, which >> x11 won't do, which gives you some "poor man's" zoom... useful on cards >> without xv, eg. nvidia (hint). >> > > man mplayer > /-vm > > or perhaps you mean DGA? mplayer supports that too ... >
DGA support is getting dropped by X.Org. Don't waste time on it. (beside starting to add --disable-dga or equivalents to configure options for ports). -- Matthieu Herrb
