[mythtv-users] OpenGL Painter ???

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 18, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Brian Wood wrote:

> So I bit the big one and decided to try out 0.20 on a test  platform.
> More to make sure I am not giving out bad advice to users of newer
> Myth systems than anything else.
>
> So let me see if I get this right: The OpenGL painter requires more
> cycles of higher-priced hardware in order to make the menu changes
> take longer?
>
> Or am I missing something here ?
>
> I guess I just don't get it when it comes to eye-candy, but then I
> grew up in the era of ASR-33 teletypes :-)
>
> Sigh....

The idea is to move it all over to OpenGL for better eye-candy and no  
CPU cycles since you'll be able to use the hardware OpenGL on your  
probably not higher-priced hardware. The menus are just the first  
step as more of a proof of concept. Eventually when all of the UI  
uses OpenGL, it will all make more sense. Plus from what I understand  
(I could certainly be misunderstanding) you'll be able to use color  
OSD with xvmc acceleration once the OSD moves over to OpenGL which  
will be nice.