[vlc-devel] [PATCH] video_output: add support for Flaschen-Taschen screen protocol

[François Revol]

On 10/07/2016 23:43, François Revol wrote:
>> Memory copy is lame. Use struct iovec.
> 
> I rewrote that part, but...
> 
> It seems like mingw still lacks both writev and sendmsg :-(
> I'd really like to get this to work on win32 as well.
> 
> There seems to be some vlc_sendmsg() #ifdef-ed out for win32.
> 
> I'd propose to add a net_Writev() call that'd fall back properly for
> win32. This wouldn't imply any support for ancillary data and other
> things that can't be done.

Ok, I should have grepped outside of src/, I just notice now compat/ :D

I'll resend the patch using sendmsg().

> Also, it might be interesting to test this on a big-endian machine, it
> might need some adjustment for the RGB bitmask.


Btw, one recent commit did require me to swap the bitmasks in there...

François.