[MPlayer-dev-eng] new gui

[Luca Barbato]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:37:12PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> 
> I don't like it. Rendering widgets onto the movie surface has the
> following two major problems:
> 
> - it will look like utter crap on low-resolution movies (think 160x112
>   or even 64x64)
> 
> - on high resolution movies it's a HUGE performance hit due to
>   additional memcpy of the whole frame along with the alpha blending.
>   afaik there is no workaround for this (i studied it heavily during
>   mplayer g2 development before it was abandoned).
> 

A solution is put the movie as separate overlay and keep the osd surface 
  with customizable sizes.

Not sure fi the mplayer as canvas approach could do that but the "use a 
canvas approach can use it with ease.

lu

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Luca Barbato

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