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(See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342354)

I reported the lack of reference as a bug to Novell, since David Reveman the creator of Xgl and this plugin, works at Novell. He told me that a new major revision of the plugin will arrive in the future, and that proper docs and a reference client implementation will come with it.

I added this feature easily to MPlayer by applying the patch, only compiling took some time. Compiz works (almost) out of the box on openSUSE, and enabling the Video Playback Plugin takes just a click. A user need not to have any expertise of X at all. And it wold be much easier if the player (e.g. ...

David Reveman from Novell added a little plugin to compiz which enables video player programs to render video efficiently on a composited desktop. See: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-March/001658.html I enabled this plugin by one click on my openSUSE 10.3 and compiled MPlayer with...