Re: [xine-devel] direct rendering x post processing

[James S. <jst...@us...>]

Hi,

On Thursday 17 Apr 2003 17:37, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> now that xine cvs uses ffmpeg's direct rendering maybe we should rethink
> the default post processing level.

Well the default level was just plucked out of thin air when I wrote it so 
I've no problem with you changing it. 

> i guess that it might better to ship pp disabled by default. users are
> generally unaware of configuration options and it's bad to drop frames
> on slow systems. less serious is not post processing on fast computers.

It is quite possible to make it so that frames will not be dropped if the 
computer is too slow for the level selected, though I couldn't think of a way 
to prevent yo-yo'ing between two levels. 

> well, i'm not a mplayer user. does anybody know if pp is enabled by
> default? why xine is 11% faster? using the same decoders/drivers i would
> expect both to show about the same performance.

I don't think pp is enabled by default. I think you need to specify -vf pp on 
the command line to use it.

James.