Re: [gtk-list] Re: Best way to display video

[Andreas Tille <tille physik uni-halle de>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Charles Lepple wrote:

> Imlib (IMHO) is slow. I tried something similar.
Could you explain that more detailed please?

I use ImLib because it uses XSHM and has a cache for rendered images.
This seems me to be the fastes way to display images under X (I don't know
much about X programming and may be you can enlighten me ...).
May be for the case of showing a "Film" you should switch of the
cache because it makes no sense in this case.
 
> My application was tailored for truecolor visuals (pseudocolor is too much
> effort :-), but I get very nice frame rates with a piece of code based on
> Patrick Reynolds' cqcam GTK frontend. I'm currently using it to convert
> grayscale images to color, but the cqcam program has optimized conversions
> for 24 bit -> 15, 16, and 24 bit color. It handles both truecolor and
> pseudocolor visuals, although the truecolor support is easier to work with
I depend on displaying images independ from the display.  Could you
explain how cqcam handles this and what is the reason for the gain of
speed in your opinion.

Kind regards

           Andreas.