[mythtv] VideoOut Priority

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 30 January 2004 03:01 pm, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest a patch to try to solve the recent DirectFB flaw,
> with introducing a priority list of videoout methods. And also add a
> -videoout parameter to mythfrontend.

DirectX can never conflict with anything else -- to compile with win32 
support, everything else must be disabled.  

The PVR350 shouldn't be selected unless it's a mpeg2 file and the decoder is 
available and enabled, and if that's true, then it's used unconditionally.

The ViaSlice and XvMC methods are already higher priority than Xv, and 
viaslice is used in preference to xvmc if both are enabled.  Both require 
special setup of the decoder to work, so can't easily be selected in a 
priority list anyway after the decoder has been initialized.

If you're building with directfb, you probably should be building against Qt/
Embedded (kind of meaningless to use directfb in X) and would want to disable 
all the X dependencies completely, anyway.

There really is no 'directfb' flaw, aside from it being enabled when it 
shouldn't have been in an RPM meant for general consumption, which _still_ 
hasn't been fixed.

Isaac