What is Video Overlay?

[Edman22]

Like the title says, what is video overlay? Is it hardware based? For example for those of you who use video lan media player, there is an option that says "use video overlay" and it proceeds to say that this is some form of hardware acceleration, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what it actually is.

I ask this because I'm having a problem with it, which can be seen in this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1111065

 

[Lomic]

Teach a man to fish....

Googling for video overlay yielded many results. Not being a smart ass, but tha answer to your first question is there, any I don't want to copy/paste many sources

 

[Edman22]

Yea, I'd already googled it. The problem was that there were a few definitions of it and I was unsure what it really meant in the context of vlc. Anyways, thanks for the help.