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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: mpeglib: SDL support
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-11 22:47:44
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On Monday 11 June 2001 02:43 pm, Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2001 05:50, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > > > > 90% of our users, at least, will be using binaries, and 90% of
> > > > > > the binaries will be compiled for Xvideo.  This means that those
> > > > > > Athat use Xvideo binaries, but don't have Xvideo support
> > > > > > (particularly, they don't use a XF4 supported card, which are
> > > > > > many, so their distro installs XF3 instead, like Linux Mandrake),
> > > > > > which means that mpeglib won't be able to play mpeg, which means
> > > > > > that I'll get a lot of bug reports ;)
>
> What I dont understand is that you want mpeglib to release a bugfix and not
> xfree. After all mpeglib behaves correctly, it asks whether the xserver
> supports xvideo and takes it, if available. Unfortunately in you
> configuration the xserver is lying because it doesn't support xv, it only
> claims to do so. So the logical step would be to fix xfree (if they did not
> already fix it in 4.1.0).

No, no no no!  I said that XF3 doesn't do XVideo at all, so an Xvideo 
compiled mpeglib would be useless.  I didn't know that it'l switch to mit-shm 
if Xvideo isn't present.  I'm not blaming Martin for the earlier problems I 
had with Xvideo not working on my 3dfx and XF4.

>
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