From 7269373555e9b9594ef297a0b6ddd8169aeec8bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: acki2 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:01:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - let's start creating some DGA FAQ (sort of ...) git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@828 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/DGA | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 DOCS/DGA diff --git a/DOCS/DGA b/DOCS/DGA new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..78c0f1feb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/DOCS/DGA @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ + +Contents +~~~~~~~~ + + 1. Summary + 2. What is DGA + 3. DGA & MPlayer + 4. Features of DGA driver + 5. Speed issues + 6. Known bugs + 7. Future work + + A. Some modelines + + + +1. Summary +~~~~~~~~~~ + This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and + what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't). + +2. What is DGA? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a programm to + bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. + Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into + the memory range of your process. This is just allowed by the kernel + if + + + Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de) 17.5.2001 + + To be continued... + +