Re: [xine-devel] final decision on events?

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Miguel,

> > Maybe we can solve this at least for DVD playback by adding a
> > wakeup buffer type. Input_dvd can send one of these after issuing
> > an event. Apart from nop buffers, these would be handed to the
> > decoders and they could perform some regular tasks like event
> > polling.
>
> i thought about it too, and in this case it would completely
> eliminate the need of events since you can pass information using the
> normal xine buffer mechanism. i suspect this is not possible due to
> the latency of the engine (it has to be enqueued on decoder fifo
> before getting processed by spu).

You are right. I forgot about animatd menus where the video fifo would 
be full of data. Another solution would be to add a wakeup function to 
the decoder API which video_decoder.c would call regularly. (But I can 
imagine that you would not like this solution much.)

Michael

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