Re: [Mvpmc-devel] What development env do you use?

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:04:40 GMT, Robin Rawson-Tetley wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:31:33PM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > X11 terminals are fun. Untill you start doing video streams. Then they=20
> > buckle. I suggest you try this with X11 on the host itself and make sure=
> =20
> > X11 is properly accelerated.
> 
> I haven't been developing on the project very long, but I thought host
> mode was only any good for testing the UI (I'd be delighted to be
> wrong since it would make my life easier and stop me having to fight my
> wife off the TV to do testing!)
> 
> Rob

I've often thought it would be great to invoke mplayer in host mode,
but that is not supported at the moment.

So you are correct, host mode is really only good for UI development.

Jon