Re: [9fans] Ideas???

["Paweł Lasek" <pawel.lasek@gmail.com>]

On 9/18/06, Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:10:58PM -0400, John Floren wrote:
> > On 9/17/06, Pawe? Lasek <pawel.lasek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On 9/17/06, tushar mahule <tusharmahule@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > >* port mplayer?? It's ugly code, but it works, and it works pretty
> > >fast ;-D
>
> > I second the mplayer vote, because it's possibly the best (from a
> > user's perspective, I don't know what the code is like) media player
> > I've ever used. However, before mplayer is useful, I think we kinda
> > need some more sound drivers.
>
> Also, is there hardware accelerated video (scaling!) and fullscreen
> switching?

Theoretically it should be possible to port mplayer's vidix using
access to graphics card memory with device files (I don't remember
exact files, but there was at least one which allowed to even write
pci drivers as filesystems if one wanted to...)

Integrating it with rio would be much tougher, but I think that at
least vesa driver should be pretty easy to port, considering one finds
a suitable way to return control to rio (like the need for "reset" on
linux vt after using mplayer's -vo vesa).

> --
> Conquering the galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do --
> knowing no better, having no choice.
>         -- Greg Egan, "Diaspora" (about alien invasion stories)
>

-- 
Paul Lasek