Re: Xvideo: Autopaint colorkey bug in the Unix version of Helix

Hi Daniel,
In the 1st iteration of the Xv extension in VMware video driver we
just had XV_COLORKEY attribute and relied on the application to paint
the colorkey. With no autopaint feature in the
driver, videos didn't play with Real Player. So we added the
XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY attribute. Although the driver starts with
default value of 1, if some other application (eg Mplayer) changes the
attribute to 0 then videos will stop working with Real player.

Setting XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY to 1 will solve this problem.

Any idea when is the next release of Real player for Linux coming up?

Thanks,
Bankim.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Daniel Yek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Bankim,
>
> Yes, I agree that the XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY bug is bad. I'll try looking
> into fixing it probably by simply setting it to 1 at the start of every
> playback. At this time, I don't think it is necessary for an app. to restore
> the value, because any application can set this attribute to a different
> value after the player started.
>
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
>
> --
> Daniel Yek.
>
>
>
> Greg Wright wrote:
>>
>> Just adding player-dev since they might be interested in
>> getting the fix in.
>>
>> --greg
>>
>>
>> Bankim Bhavsar wrote:
>>>
>>> I hit this autopaint colorkey bug while implementing Xv extensions in
>>> vmware video driver.
>>> https://bugs.helixcommunity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3465&link=0
>>>
>>> The patch attached by Tom in this discussion
>>>
>>> http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/helix-client-dev/2007-March/005953.html
>>> does partially address the bug.
>>>
>>> When I browsed through the helix code, I see that the patch is not
>>> included. This patch
>>> will be a good improvement.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bankim.
>>>
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