[vlc-devel] [PATCH]win32 color fix

[Paul Fernquist]

Kaarlo Räihä says:
> Paul Fernquist kirjoitti 02.07.2009 kello 12:02:
> > 
> > I am new and submitted a patch for bad colors in win32. It turns out
> >  I was
> > way off. I was patching code thinking the code was Direct3D and VLC was
> > using the very old DirectDraw library. I switched to Direct3D and
> >  everything
> > worked fine. For some reason the Dierct3D module checks for OS
> >  Version and
> > rejects everything below Vista OS. Microsoft discourages checking OS
> >  version
> > for determining if a feature is present. My XP SP3 system works fine
> 
> It doesn't check if the feature is present, it just makes Direct3D default
video output
> if OS is Vista or newer, and this is because DirectX (default in other
Windows versios) disables Aero.

The OS and DirectX are independent (except DirectX 10 will not be ported to
XP)

If you want to use Aero you should check for Aero and don't use Aero if not
available. Not using Direct3D at all forces the use of the extremely old
DirectDraw. DirectDraw is obsolete and DirectDraw features are being
removed.

What command line option overrides the default?

Thanks,
Paul Fernquist