[Kwintv] QtVision and video players

[George Staikos]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 02:01, Mark Goldstein wrote:
> George,
>
> Thanks for explanation. I'll need to read something
> about v4l, xv and so on...
>
> One additional question: I can run 2 different video
> players (2 instances of the same player, or 2
> different players) and they play the video back in 2
> separate windows without blocking each other. Does it
> mean QtVision uses some different mechanism, that
> causes blocking?

  Hm I guess it's possible - not sure.  I'd suspect it's more that the video 
player app knows that it's in use already and switches to another output 
method.  In any case, I'm pretty sure it's out of the scope of kwintv.

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