SDL-1.2.7-ETV\README.TXT

Patch to add soundbuffer positioning-reporting

New functions to detect the amount of audio still to play:

Determine if we have the ability to detect the audio buffer delay:

int SDL_HasAudioDelayMsec(void)

Determine the audio buffer delay in milliseconds:

int SDL_AudioDelayMsec(void)

Credits go to the MPEG4IP projects at http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net for the original version of the patch.

Platforms supported and their status:

linux OSS Clean patch as from MPEG4IP version. Is tested on Linux 2.4 with ALSA OSS emulation and working correctly.
linux ALSA Clean patch as from MPEG4IP version. Is compiling on linux, not tested.
Windows DirectX Lot of bugfixes on the MPEG4IP version. Is tested on Windows 98SE with DirectX 8.1 and working correctly.

Other platforms are not supported (yet) and cannot be used for ETV.

I added a new function to SDL to set the destination colorkey for overlays:

void SDL_SetDestColorKeyYUVOverlay(SDL_Overlay *overlay, Uint32 colorkey)

Platforms supported and their status:

linux X11 The overlays default recognize destination colorkey support. This function is ignored
Windows DirectX Supported, tested & working.

Other platforms ignore this function. If ETV is usable depends on the natural behaviour of overlays with respect to colorkeys.

The keyboard processing was improved to add real UTF-16 support beyond the 0x00FF characters.

Platforms supported and their status:

Other platforms are not supported (yet) and cannot be used to input Unicode characters over 0x00FF for ETV.