[vlc-devel] Re: RFC: vout system (Also long)

[Anatoly R.]

Hello R.,

Saturday, January 31, 2004, 7:10:08 PM, you wrote:

RB> Anatoly R. writes:
 >> Sony Playstation uses dozens of video formats.
 >> It uses dozens of texture types.
 >> In order to emulate it you need to convert them to current colorspace.
 >> 
 >> I can't really point you where are the routines because I never tried
 >> to dive into their sources. I suspect that [links]

RB> Okay, I just looked using the suggested starting places. It looks like
RB> they use OpenGL for which there are many implementations and libraries
RB> available depending on the OS. 

RB> My guess is that using an OpenGL framework would be preferable than
RB> something based on libpng. vlc right now doesn't make use of OpenGL,
RB> right?

RB> Anyway, I have a feeling redoing things whether using OpenGL or not
RB> will be major (but probably useful) work.

A bit wrong. There are dozens of plugins for different OSes
(crossplatform too), 3d subsystems (dga (afair), dx, opengl,
glide, sdl) only couple of them are open-source.
PEOPS is an open source 2D gfx plugin which might use SDL for gfx
output. 


-- 
Best regards,
 Anatoly                            mailto:emulynx at ml.lv
WARNING!!! MY EMAIL WILL BE CHANGED IN APRIL TO LYNX SOBAKA "ML" DOT LV

-- 
This is the vlc-devel mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html
If you are in trouble, please contact <postmaster at videolan.org>