Re: Double Buffered display vs Overlays

What hardware you use ?
On some hardware you can get accelerated graphics on frame buffer via
DirectFB.
I have written pydfb bindings for it which has exactly the same interface as
pygame.
I had no problems displaying nice OSD pics over HW overlay at all.
Dmitry/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sparks" <zathras-Tplxq1HjHHPqlBn2x/YWAg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [pygame] Double Buffered display vs Overlays


> > Pygame has an Overlay class, but it's a but experimental.
>
> I suppose I wasn't clear enough. We are using Pygame overlays, and finding
it
> works very nicely for playback of video, even on unaccelerated displays.
If
> that's all you want it's fine :-)
>