does a mac has graphic hardware acceleration?

[Richmond]

On 14/01/13 10:46, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> LC 4.6.2, OS X 10.8.2
>
> I have a videoplayer and take snapshots by "export snapshot from rect."-
> Before that I set the alwaysBuffer of player "foo" to true.
>
> This works since years, also on current Mountain Lion. Now, I have a
> customer with 10.8.2 where the snapshot only has weired pattern of lines and
> not the video picture.
>
> I had a similar behavior on some few windows machines and found by incidence
> that switching off the hardware acceleration of the graphic adapter solved
> it and taking a snaphot worked like a charm again.
>
> I am not very deep into Macs, I don't even find any graphic adapter setting
> in the system settings menue. Where are those hidden? Any other idea, what
> could cause such a behavior is appreciated! Perhaps you have experienced
> this issue already?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tiemo
>
>
I don't know how relevant this is to your problem;

Running Mac OS 10.6.8 in VMWare means that all forms
of screenshotting just don't work - how much of this is due
to the fact that my PC has hardware virtuaization capabilities
or not I just don't know.