Jerky playback

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Gildas Bazin wrote: 
> Another thing: I looked at the code, and it seems to me that the --overlay
> option is not used anywhere (It must have been used in the past but is not
> anymore). Well it is referenced once in the SDL output plugin, but it doesn't
> do anything.
> So --overlay shouldn't make any difference.
So it only makes sense when using SDL.

> > > On the other hand it looks like you are missing one vital other library,
> > like
> > > svgalib (I use svgalib-1.4.1-13.i386.rpm) or another. I can't remember
> > exactly
> > > which libraries you need.
> >
> > I'd say this is definately the problem as I had no idea i had to install it.
> > Will I need to recompile vlc or anything else to take advantage of svgalib
> > once it's installed? (ie xfree, or the xvideo component?)
> > Where can I find out what other libraries I need (since I have probably not
> > installed them).
> 
> I really don't think you need svgalib. All you should need for the Xvideo
> output is XFree 4.x.x and its development packages (for the header files and
> other things ...)
I stand corrected ;-). It is not needed for Xvideo.