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On Friday 31 August 2001 10:40, you wrote:
> >I was thinking the other day about having a XVideo X11
> >driver in allegro. Would anyone be against it?
> >
> >Some notes:
> >(these are the Xv features that my card's driver supports)
> > o RGB and YUV hardware overlays
> > o hardware colorspace conversion
> > o hardware scaling...
>
> I'm for it!!
> A video overlay driver in X would be really useful IMO; it would make weird
> resolutions to run in fullscreen anyway via the hardware scaler...
>
> I was also investigating a bit in this some weeks ago, but I didn't find a
> lot of documentation on the Xv extension, and dropped the idea; if you got
> enough knowledge on it, code the driver by all means!
I've been looking into it and it 'seems' doable.. But then again I really
haven't done much with X... Basically Im a beginner with X, Got a good tut?
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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