# HG changeset patch # User acki2 # Date 992812829 0 # Node ID 20612a4399d8c524d6af1b92c29a9793b8a17799 # Parent 8682a16321dbc4b8945394e7eebf9e220ef2c2b5 - reflect changes as to -(no)double and -lircconfig diff -r 8682a16321db -r 20612a4399d8 DOCS/DGA --- a/DOCS/DGA Sun Jun 17 20:59:39 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/DGA Sun Jun 17 21:20:29 2001 +0000 @@ -97,6 +97,21 @@ results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- buffering is enabled or not. + Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in + some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the + next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory + of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. + In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new + video data. + + Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be + disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable + doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only + works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may + result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of + CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware. + + 6. Speed issues ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff -r 8682a16321db -r 20612a4399d8 DOCS/mplayer.1 --- a/DOCS/mplayer.1 Sun Jun 17 20:59:39 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1 Sun Jun 17 21:20:29 2001 +0000 @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ .RB [ \-dsp\ device ] .RB [ \-pp\ quality ] .RB [ \-include\ configfile ] +.RB [ \-lircconfig\ configfile ] .RB [ \-ffactor\ number ] .RB [ \-sub\ file ] .RB [ \-subfps\ rate ] @@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ .B \-osdlevel\ level specifies which mode the OSD should start in (0 : none, 1 : seek, 2: seek+timer) (default = 2) +.TP +.B \-lircconfig\ configfile +specifies a configfile for LIRC (see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc .IP .SH "ADVANCED OPTIONS" .TP @@ -242,6 +246,13 @@ .B \-framedrop frame dropping : decode all frames, video may skip .TP +.B \-nodouble +disable doublebuffering (default). Currently this is only honoured by the DGA driver. +With the DGA driver this also disables OSD support but yields some speed gain. +.TP +.B \-double +enable doublebuffering. Currently this is only honoured by the DGA driver. +.TP .B \-dvdkey key key to decrypt stream encrypted with CSS. For example : -dvdkey F169072699 (this is NOT for DVD playing! For DVD use the -dvdauth option!)