[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vf_bmovl2 - rewrite of vf_bmovl - Extra Tasty Crispy version

[Hans Meine]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:13, Jonas Jensen wrote:
> > > - Allowing bmovl2 to "listen" on both INET sockets, UNIX sockets and
> > > (multiple) fifos.
> >
> > I'm still not convinced this is necessary, especially with the above
> > proposal.  Maybe I'm not considering something I should be?

AFAICS chaining'd have the additional advantage that YUV _and_ RGB images 
could be overlayed in their natural colorspaces. Also, one application might 
want to "mark" stuff in the movie, i.e. operate on _frame coordinates_, thus 
benefitting from the scaling later in the chain, while another app might want 
to display a clock or sth. in _screen coordinates_, at the end of the chain.

So chaining would give you a lot of flexibility "for free" (from existing 
mplayer code), while in the hypothetic case that multiple apps want to use 
the overlay via multiple sockets/fifos the bmovl2 code would get MUCH more 
complicated AFAICS.

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