[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r6767 by jdonavan

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Monday 04 July 2005 07:03 pm, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>Also, the presence of the libs can't be used as an indicator of which
>>one to use.  For example KM ships with both nVidia and VLD libs.  The
>>idea here is to make it easier on packagers and those using binaries not
>>folks who roll their own.
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>Still not seeing what the difficulty is.  It's really easy to know if the VLD 
>stuff's being used at runtime, and it's just as easy to get the size of the 
>video that's being decoded (if you need to drop buffers for HD, etc).  Don't 
>understand why the extra table in the database is required for this, either.
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I dunno, there were large sections that depended on ifdefs.  I figured 
if it could have been detected at runtime it would have been done that 
way to begin with.  As for the table, it's so it doesn't require a code 
change to add/change buffer settings for different implementations.