[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Display framedropping state in the OSD
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Sun Feb 8 22:11:13 CET 2004
Paul TT writes:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:44:48 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > on the OSD depending on whether framedrop, hardframedrop or no
> > > framedrop is currently enabled.
> >
> > ROTFL!!! WTF do you think happens if the video is already playing too
> > slow, and the user hits "d" to turn on framedrop and all the sudden
> > osd appears? :) Yep, you guessed it! It gets even slower!
> >
> > In some ways the feature makes sense, yes....but it also could be
> > really counter-productive. Even worse would be when switching
> > framedrop back _off_, since then you can't drop frames to make up for
> > the slowdown of osd, so a/v will desync...
>
> i like a lot this patch, because i have ever to guess the state of framedrop :(
>
> IMHO it could be very good maybe only to notify it when framdrop is
> off, so not to slow down video and sync.
Fully agree.
> it's there a way to tell framderop state on command line output too?
> so you don't fuckup video with osd when you are slow, but notify it anyway to the user.
See -framedrop, -noframedrop, -hardframedrop.
Diego
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