[forum] overlay how to

[Marc Aurele La France]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, thrantir wrote:

> this is my first post, so hi to all, and forgive me for my orrible english
> (I'm italian :-) )

> I need to setup a linux box built by quite exotical hardware, to have an
> overaly of two video output, one from the vga and one from an hardware mpeg4
> decoder. So, I need to study about xv overlay.
> Could you suggest me where can I find documentation about that?

Reading the Xv man page should get you started.  There are also quite a 
number of applications out there that use this extension.

Marc.

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