Re: DirectFB

Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 22:28 schrieb H}kan Hjort:
> Don't have any.

don't expected that (c;

> You should probably look into if there are any advanges to this before
> time is expended on writing code for it.

At the moment I'm very busy. (Writing a book about the dark-side of PCs (c; )
But when I finished that, probable in begining of august, I'll look at 
DirectFB. If it is as good as I think I'll play a bit around with it. If it's 
good I am the man who tries to implement Ogle for DirectFB (c:
Discolure Agreement (c; : This means not that I manage to get it work, but it 
should be possible. mplayer supports DirectFB yet.

> Not curently.  Should not be to hard though.  It's just a matter of
> implementing the functions that mpeg2_video/video_output.c uses.
> More specificaly:
>
> /* Should allocate and set up everyting. */
> void display_init(int padded_width, int padded_height,
>                   int picture_buffer_shmid,
>                   char *picture_buffer_addr);
> /* Called when the input resolution/size is about to change,
>  * display_init() will be called again after this. */
> void display_reset(void);
> /* Display one image. */
> void display(yuv_image_t *current_image);
> /* Poll for input / redraw events.  For now the code to do screen shoots
>  * and pass on the events to the input client is located here too (should
>  * be changed). */
> void display_poll(yuv_image_t *current_image);
> /* Called upon program termination. */
> void display_exit(void);
>
> Some very small tweek of mpeg2_video/video_output.c might be needed too.

Well, thanks for that info. Perhaps they'll help me next month!

> When we have more output modes I guess some code to select and try
> different ones would be in order too. That is not the case right
> now though, so one would have to select at build time or make two
> binaries and select at startup to begin with.

I would do it like mplayer does. Make an additional Parameter and use the 
particular function.

> Yes and a hack to output directly to the frame buffer of Creator3D cards.
>
> Nothing says that like code ;-)

We'll see (c;

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Grüße,
Julian