On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:30:50PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:03:00PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > Why a lot of damage? How many machines are too slow for software scaling? > > > > I would guess about 80% of all the machines out there. You know, not > > everybody has a machine fast enough to run Beryl or can afford one. > > > > All machines below 2GHz I would guess, this excludes every non-x86 right > > away. My last generation PowerBook is not fast enough, even for a video > > of moderate size. > > > > When the machine is too slow to scale the video, video and audio go out > > of sync and the movie becomes unwatchable. > > > > I would guess the number of people taking screenshots at all is in the > > low one-digit percent of the users of MPlayer. It's not unreasonable at > > all to expect them to take appropriate measures. The situation is the > > same for all other multimedia players, btw. > > > > Does this give you an idea how much damage such a change would do? > > Yes. I see your point here. Reimar also made a good one. I won't insist > on having software scaling as default.
:) > But then again we could try to fit well for users of powerful machines > as well. What do you think of my proposition of rearranging the template > a bit (but still defaulting to accelerated mode) ? I still think it's a bad idea. In fact I think this template is a bad idea to begin with. MPlayer has been carefully tuned to choose the best video output driver by default, setting a default vo overrides this. > > > That's a workaround. For plain screenshots it'd be enough to enable this > > > workaround by default. > > > > > > For Beryl, we would need another workaround, and presumably a more > > > complicated > > > one. We shouldn't assume that is even possible to do that sanely. > > > > This is not a workaround, this is the only feasible solution. Now would > > you please try it? > > That's not necessary, I believe when you say it works. It doesn't work for > Beryl though, or for $insert-new-weird-yet-to-be-found-stuff-here. I doubt this is related to Beryl, try the following mplayer -vo xv -vf screenshot <moviefile> Then press 's' a few times, you should get a message like sending VFCTRL_SCREENSHOT! *** screenshot 'shot0008.png' *** and a PNG file with the screenshot in the current directory. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
