Florian Wesch

You might try the undocumented `INFOBEAMER_AV_DEBUG=1` setting with the 0.9.8 release. It will probably flood the output with debug messages, but maybe there's something useful in there?

If you find out how/if the omxplayer cache option maps to an `AVDictionary` setting that gets passed into `avformat_open_input`, we might give that a try. My cargo cult senses tell...

No update from my side. If anyone provide an easy way to me to locally reproduce this problem, I'd be happy to help. Otherwise I'm a bit lost on how...

That's [udp protocol options](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#udp). Handled by ffmpeg/libav which info-beamer uses.

Yes. All nodes are consuming resources. Video that are not stopped continue playing, even if they are not displayed anywhere. If you want to avoid that, you have to explicitly...

If you use the normal way of playing video you don't need layers. The videos are rendered all within the same OpenGL layer. The order in which you :draw() them...

As I said: There are no layers. Just draw video2 above video1, if you want video2 to be in front of video1. Reverse the draw order if you want video1...

I'm not sure if VBOs would give a noticeable performance boost for images and videos. The Lua code that controls the output can be very dynamic and unpredictable: In one...

I just took a look at freetype-gl. It sounds very interesting and looks solid. The problem with those nice libraries always seems to be that they are not readily available...

The version in the repository uses a different image loading library ([DevIL](http://openil.sourceforge.net/)) compared to the raspberry pi version, which uses custom loading routines. So this version supports loading gifs (but...