Comment on Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I always assumed this was due to the bandwidth of interfaces at the time. It would be to much for the hardware decoder to copy the output back for compositing. Thus the card rendered directly onto a mask.

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