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Contents
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1. Summary
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2. What is DGA
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3. DGA & MPlayer
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4. Features of DGA driver
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5. Speed issues
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6. Known bugs
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7. Future work
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A. Some modelines
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1. Summary
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This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and
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what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).
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2. What is DGA?
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DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a programm to
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bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory.
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Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
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the memory range of your process. This is just allowed by the kernel
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if
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Acki ([email protected], www.acki-netz.de) 17.5.2001
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To be continued...
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