[Kwintv] New CVS snapshot, preparing 0.8.2

Dirk Ziegelmeier dziegel at gmx.de
Mon Jul 19 06:53:49 CEST 2004


On Sunday 18 July 2004 21:49, mETz wrote:
> On Sonntag Juli 18 2004 21:14, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 July 2004 21:09, mETz wrote:
> > > - moving/resizing/reclipping the mainwindow causes massive desktop
> > > flicker, at least kdesktop and kicker repaint themselves all the time.
> > > When moving the window so it shows on both displays or is partially
> > > outside the screen then this flicker happens all the time.
> > > - moving the window very fast leaves partial images on screen
> > > - popupmenu or prefs on my second display often get overpainted by
> > > tv-image - sometimes no image is displayed at all anymore,
> > > resize/move/reclipping the window helps
> >
> > Ever tried to uncheck that "Use Overlay if possible" box? ;-)
>
> Hmm, so is v4l-plugin + use overlay the bad version of xvideo-plugin +
> xfree-v4l-module? :)
Yes it is. That's because the XVIDEO plugin can do the clipping on the server 
side and can therefore clip _before_ moving the window. The v4l plugin can 
only clip _after_ moving the window, that's why you see the flickering. I 
have to repaint the whole screen.

Dirk



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