Re: Still not understanding pixmaps vs RGBs

[Josh Green <jgreen users sourceforge net>]

On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 07:47, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
> No, xine for instance is updating the entire screen, significantly 
> faster than I can do it using gdk. I think this is due to the 
> asynchronous nature of the screen updates.

Xine will also use the Xv extension of X which is hardware accelerated
for many video drivers. If you need speedy access to video why not look
at this or Xshm? Just crashing this thread, so sorry if my information
isn't very related :)

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    Josh Green
    Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)