Re: Faster rendering to screen

[Chris Seaton <chris chrisseaton com>]

> Is there any rather simple way to get the data on-screen
> sufficiently fast? Like rearranging the pixbuf data in some
> fashion and then dump them out to X with a more low-level
> function? What approach do the mplayer people employ (just
> curious; I don't need anything THAT fancy!)?

Use a graphics library such as SDL. That will allow you to render (blit) 
to the screen much faster than anything gtk can do.

SDL should play nicely with gtk. I've seen it done before.

The mplayer people use a hardware overlay, also available with SDL, that 
allows extrememly fast, completely flicker free drawing to the screen.

Chris Seaton