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LCA: Two talks on the state of X

LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 15, 2008 9:20 UTC (Fri) by ranmachan (subscriber, #21283)
In reply to: LCA: Two talks on the state of X by daenzer
Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X

A textured XVideo adapter could also have the advantage that you can play more than just one
video at the same time.  NVidia had that ages ago in their binary driver (because their cards
could do the color conversion on stretchblit AFAIK).


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LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 15, 2008 21:13 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

How... useful.

Do you have a multistreamed consciousness, or something? How on earth can 
you pay *attention* to two videos at the same time? (And if you're only 
paying attention to one, isn't the other one annoying, flickering away in 
the background?)

LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 19, 2008 7:20 UTC (Tue) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050) [Link]

Think several browser tabs with embedded video players. Only one of them may actually play at
any time, but only one of them can get the single overlay port.

LCA: Two talks on the state of X

Posted Feb 19, 2008 7:55 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Argh, yes, I see, because they won't even display a paused image without 
an overlay.

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