# HG changeset patch # User acki2 # Date 990136910 0 # Node ID 7f68071a031488cd27b4ad72ab2d7eecc7b8dd1e # Parent 93304e7353c886caab6e9572462977431fe8b6cd - let's start creating some DGA FAQ (sort of ...) diff -r 93304e7353c8 -r 7f68071a0314 DOCS/DGA --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/DGA Thu May 17 22:01:50 2001 +0000 @@ -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... + +