[mythtv-users] WOT: Moving video around in a PC without using overlay

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Mar 3 04:08:55 UTC 2011


On 3/2/2011 23:05, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> You can merge the streams together in software, and feed the whole
>> block of video into XVideo.
> Ah.  That makes sense.  Can you run XVideo to two separate displays at the
> same time these days?  (I was looking at either 2 Xservers or Xinerama
> on a pair of HDMI outputs.

As I understand it, you can only have one XVideo overlay per X server.  
If you need more than that, you'll need to use OpenGL for video 
rendering, or you'll need to do all scaling and colorspace conversion in 
software.


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