vlc with framebuffer

[Christophe Massiot]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> a) shouldn't vlc exit normally when not being able to get xvideo ?
> b) there's an "fb" module in the vlc source, is this meant as an output
> module ? If so, can I expect better results with it ? Should I run it from
> X ? How can I make sure that's what it's using ?

The fb output plug-in uses the frame buffer device of Linux kernel
2.2.x and 2.4.x. It used to provide better results than plain X11. But
it doesn't use hardware overlay. I don't think fb plug-in is working
nowadays.

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Christophe Massiot.