[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: help on libmpdemux usage

[Shan]

Hi Romain Dolbeau on 01/19/2004 09:36:52 Zulu the following was relayed:

> Wrong. QuickTime is also required to display YUV image
> in an overlay, and that's exactly what every media
> player on macosx does, including mapleyr and vlc.

Yes you are correct QT does handle YUV overlays but not from the 
developers point of view as QT is called via the CoreGraphics 
WindowServer using Quartz functions under OSX.  In OS9 it is QuickDraw 
functions that call QuickTime.  You will find that CoreGraphic and 
QuickDraw includes are used in LibSDL and VLC, not QuickTime ones.

Developers only use QuickTime directly for multimedia use.  In mplayer 
and VLC's case that is mainly for audio decoding thanks to the use of 
the QDesign codec.

IMHO, QuickDraw is still the best 2D graphics engine I've seen in terms 
of speed and functionality.  Shame, Apple didn't spend the time 
necessary to port it over to OSX.

Shan