Video Mixing Renderer 7

[Henri Verbeet]

On 15 October 2013 21:52, Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> wrote:
> The most similar way to Windows would be to completely rewrite the
> current implementation of the VMR9 as VMR7 using DirectDraw, which would
> take a lot of time and most probably end up in having a lot of duplicate
> code. I am wondering whether using d3d9 for VMR7 would also be an
> acceptable solution. We could move all the d3d9 related stuff to a
> separate file so that VMR7.c and VMR9.c only offer the version specific
> interfaces and use the same code internally. This shouldn't be a big
> problem since the differences between the VMR7 and VMR9 interfaces are
> often only very small. Though it would not completely fit the behavior
> of windows.
>
I'm not very familiar with quartz / VMR, but I guess the main question
would be how applications can tell the difference between a d3d9 and a
ddraw implementation. On the other hand, the amount of d3d9 specific
code in vmr9.c looks pretty manageable at first sight.