[MPlayer-dev-eng] bug: repaints vs. double buffering

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:55:24PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:50, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > mplayer (-vo xv) seems to switch the output buffer on every repaint,
> > even when the image is still (movie paused). looks somewhat funny
> > ...
> That's not a bug,
>
haha

> it has to do with the fact that xv is hardware accelerated and uses
> double buffering.
> 
i know why it is there. i just doubt that there are constraints outside
mplayer's control that would make exactly this behavior unavoidable. ;)

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