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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Adding overlays
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:32:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050211053223.GA16480@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050210145634.34525.qmail@web53606.mail.yahoo.com>

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:56:34AM -0800, Komal Shah wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am a newbie into this overlay stuff. Let me explain
> my confusion first:
> 
> 1. I have a display controller hardware which support
> "primary buffer window", "video1 window", "video2
> window". video2 on top of -> video 1 on top of ->
> primary.
> 
> Now primay buffer window is used by /dev/fb for normal
> framebuffer support. 
> 
> 2. Now I want to utilize overlay support given by
> "video1 and 2", to have two playbacks/previews.
> 
> What should I do/use the interface to get this overlay
> support given my video1 and video2 windows?? Ofcourse
> I need to get around by setting lots of hardware
> specific values...

Userspace: DirectFB, VIDIX, XFree86/XOrg
Kernel: mga_vid style module

I'm not sure about v4l. Does it work as a purely output device? Even if 
it does I don't think many apps support it as such.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala@sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-10 14:56 Adding overlays Komal Shah
2005-02-10 19:23 ` Zack Smith
2005-02-11  5:08   ` Komal Shah
2005-02-11 15:50     ` Zack Smith
2005-02-11 13:14       ` Komal Shah
2005-02-11  5:32 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2005-02-11  6:36   ` Komal Shah

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