Brief vout 4 status

[Alejandro T. Singer]

PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST, I'M ON IT BY MISTAKE
THANKS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Samuel Hocevar" <sam at zoy.org>
To: <vlc-devel at videolan.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Brief vout 4 status


> On Thu, May 24, 2001, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> 
> >    If you want to give it a try, dummy and sdl should be the only
> > video output modules you'll manage to compile. If you want to port or
> > create a video output module that does YUV conversion, have a look at
> > plugins/sdl/vout_sdl.c. Don't bother with vout_xvideo.c, it's already
> > being ported. If you wan't to port or create a video output module that
> > does software YUV, I'm afraid you'll need to wait a few days until this
> > part is ported.
> 
>    I added a few fixes, here is the latest snapshot:
> 
>       http://zoy.org/~sam/vlc/vlc-vout4-20010525.tar.gz
> 
>    The xvideo part somewhat works, but only with one direct buffer. I
> did not manage to create several Xvimages, allocating more than one
> results in a BadAccess later. If anyone wants to have a look at it, set
> XVIDEO_MAX_DIRECTBUFFERS to more than 1 in plugins/x11/vout_xvideo.c
> and try to see what's wrong. It's probably trivial to fix, but it's far
> beyond my X programming knowledge.
> 
>    I'm now working on the generic chroma transformations so that non
> accelerated video output works as well.
> 
> -- 
> Sam.
>