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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:17:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Hannu Savolainen Subject: Re: SDL uses obsolete OSS features I did some work on getting OSS to work better with SDL. There have been some problems with select which should be fixed now. I'm having some problems in understanding what is the purpose of the DSP_WaitAudio() routine. I added a return to the very beginning of this routine and commendted out the define for USE_BLOCKING_WRITES. At least lbreakout2 seems to work as well as earlier. The latencies are the same. An ordinary blocking write does exactly the same thing than DSP_WaitAudio does. So I would recommend using the USE_BLOCKING_WRITES approach and removing everything from the DSP_WaitAudio routine. Also enabling USE_BLOCKING_WRITES makes it possible to simplify DSP_PlayAudio() because you don't need to handle the partial writes (the do-while loop). Attached is a patch against SDL-1.2.7. After these changes SDL will use OSS as it's designed to be used (make it as simple as possible). This code should work with all OSS implementations because it uses only the very fundamental features that have been there since the jurassic times.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:39:04 +0000
parents e5bc29de3f0a
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.TH "SDL_VideoInfo" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
.SH "NAME"
SDL_VideoInfo\- Video Target information
.SH "STRUCTURE DEFINITION"
.PP
.nf
\f(CWtypedef struct{
  Uint32 hw_available:1;
  Uint32 wm_available:1;
  Uint32 blit_hw:1;
  Uint32 blit_hw_CC:1;
  Uint32 blit_hw_A:1;
  Uint32 blit_sw:1;
  Uint32 blit_sw_CC:1;
  Uint32 blit_sw_A:1;
  Uint32 blit_fill;
  Uint32 video_mem;
  SDL_PixelFormat *vfmt;
} SDL_VideoInfo;\fR
.fi
.PP
.SH "STRUCTURE DATA"
.TP 20
\fBhw_available\fR
Is it possible to create hardware surfaces?
.TP 20
\fBwm_available\fR
Is there a window manager available
.TP 20
\fBblit_hw\fR
Are hardware to hardware blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_hw_CC\fR
Are hardware to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_hw_A\fR
Are hardware to hardware alpha blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_sw\fR
Are software to hardware blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_sw_CC\fR
Are software to hardware colorkey blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_sw_A\fR
Are software to hardware alpha blits accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBblit_fill\fR
Are color fills accelerated?
.TP 20
\fBvideo_mem\fR
Total amount of video memory in Kilobytes
.TP 20
\fBvfmt\fR
\fIPixel format\fR of the video device
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This (read-only) structure is returned by \fI\fBSDL_GetVideoInfo\fP\fR\&. It contains information on either the \&'best\&' available mode (if called before \fI\fBSDL_SetVideoMode\fP\fR) or the current video mode\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fI\fBSDL_PixelFormat\fR\fR, \fI\fBSDL_GetVideoInfo\fP\fR
...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01