Please Note:

The 'opengl' output plugin is still in alpha stage.
Expect crashes and strange behaviour.
Most times it seems to run fine, though.


Startup
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Start xine with '-V opengl'.  Note that xine might choose a visual with a
different color depth than you would prefer.  Choose an appropriate visual
with 'glxinfo' and select it with '-V opengl --visual xyz' in this case.


Known Problems
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* Sometimes I only see a black screen and no image
* Sometimes xine crashes when changing the stream or the position in the stream

  This seems to relate to some race conditions that are still present
  in the current code. This will change in time.

  Jun. 25, 2002: I think this issue is resolved now.  If you still encounter
  any problems, please let me know.  Otherwise I will remove this statement
  in the future.

* There is a (small) memory leak

  This is known and - unfortunately - cannot be resolved right now.
  Background: The output plugin does not get notified, when the XWindow
  is destroyed. But even when it would be notified, this wouldn't help,
  as the OpenGL context could only be destroyed by the render thread.

* Expose events just display a black image when playback is paused.

  This is known and cannot be resolved right now.
  Background: The OpenGL context can only be used by the render thread and
  not by the GUI thread. I tried to use a second context within the same
  drawable, but this destabilized the plugin to an unusable state.


Matthias Hopf <mat@mshopf.de>