Comment 116 for bug 278318

From my understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, overlay hardware is obsoleted with the move to 3D hardware/software. So all the 2D operations that where implemented in the overlay now has to be re-implemented in 3D operations.

Also, this thread:
    http://<email address hidden>/msg04078.html
which mentions option A, a "trivial" solution that will cause everything else to perform worse, but might be acceptable for fullscreen video. I think the patch he refers to is the XvMC path mentioned above, which doesn't affect xv.

What is the possibility for getting that implemented and only enabling it via an xorg.conf variable? So those of us that only ever run in fullscreen video will be happy :)