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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:44:03 +0100
Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:

> 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. ;)
> 

It is going to be removed soon, after the big key color drawing changes
are commited by beastd. Then we could simply remove the flip_page().
IMHO the current situation is ugly hack, and it is used to force automatic
key color painting.

Ivan