[Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Feb 4 19:21:14 CET 2014


Reimar Grabowski wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:19:07 +0000
> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> and in my experience the thing that's most likely to work is DVD 
>> playback because the data stream is (as I understand it) sent via a 
>> backdoor to the graphics chips bypassing most of the kernel and X.
> On Linux and BSD at least it's the standard to bypass X when talking to the GPU.

With the major caveat that the interfaces used for playing video and for 
program-generated graphics are distinct (hardware MPEG decompression in 
one case, OpenGL in the other) and having one work implies nothing about 
the other.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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