annotate libdha/README @ 11350:007ec48cf146

Current mplayer (mine is mplayer-1.0-pre1cvs20031001) cannot play mms stream with multibyte characters in the url. There is a bug in string_utf16() of libmpdemux/asf_mmst_streaming.c: the url encoding code is written for single-byte character only. It just fill a zero byte between every two adjacent bytes of the url string. This is wrong when the url string contains multi-byte characters. My patch is in the attachment, and has been tested working. It uses iconv() to convert the url's encoding to utf-16 correctly. So can this patch be accepted and commit into CVS? patch by Wang WenRui <[e-mail]>

lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library
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This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different
OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent.

The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace
video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving).

For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported
as working' list (these platforms are used daily):
 Linux/x86
 FreeBSD/x86
 NetBSD/x86
 Linux/PPC

There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that.
With root privileges libdha will finely run, but there are some others ways
to use it as a normal user:
1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root priviliges)
2, use svgalib kernel helper
3, use dhahelper (not yet finished)

The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project)
sources.

Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi.
Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi.
Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av.
(for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)