Now that obj_settings_list is used for GPU contexts, detailed
descriptions can be added so that --gpu-context=help can print
the descriptions of the GPU contexts using standard
obj_settings_list help printing.
Specify cAlphaBits in PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR makes the pixel format
transparent, as is already the case for d3d11. Also makes the
window transparent when --alpha=yes is used.
Works on --vo=gpu and --vo=gpu-next.
Using a simple substring match for extension checks is considered bad practice
because it's incorrect when one extension is a prefix of another's name.
This will almost surely not make a difference in practice but do it for correctness anyway.
This hack was part of a solution to VSync judder in desktop OpenGL on
Windows. Rather than using blocking-SwapBuffers(), mpv could use
DwmFlush() to wait for the image to be presented by the compositor.
Since this would only work while the compositor was running, and the
compositor was silently disabled when OpenGL entered exclusive
fullscreen mode, mpv needed a way to detect exclusive fullscreen mode.
The code that is being removed could detect exclusive fullscreen mode by
checking the state of an undocumented mutex using undocumented native
API functions, but because of how fragile it was, it was always meant to
be removed when a better solution for accurate VSync in OpenGL was
found. Since then, mpv got the dxinterop backend, which uses desktop
OpenGL but has accurate VSync. It also got a native Direct3D 11 backend,
which is a viable alternative to OpenGL on Windows.
For people who are still using desktop OpenGL with WGL, there shouldn't
be much of a difference, since mpv can use other API functions to detect
exclusive fullscreen.
Kacper Michajłow