[vlc-devel] Re: osx fullscreen 'flashing'

[Martin Forget]

great! thanks a lot...

i am of very limited cocoa skills... but if i can test or whatever...  
id be happy to help!

i guess this is going to endup somewhat like qtkit..?

my project was originally using qtkit... and is intended for the  
appletv.
but since qtkit has major issues for the appletv when playing h264
(the hardware accelerators messes up everything... the video appears  
upside down and b/w)
i decided to move to vlc.
(actual performance tests show that vlc is sometime more performant  
than nvidia hardware decoder ...
except for full hd h264.. but xvid gives a somewhat comparable  
quality , and using vlc, the appletv can decode fine up to 720p)

quick question.... (probably very far fetched but... )
when using qtkit... the vout is really displayed over the window...  
and not composited with the window data)
putting a textbox over a qtview ... you don't see the textbox when it  
starts... qtkit overwrites everything)

do you think the vlc.framework will react the same way?

my goal is to have alpha blended flash over some video  (so i can do  
an iptv interface in flash very fast)
originally i was thinking of a qtview with a transparent webview over  
with flash in it... but that fell appart because flash can be  
transparent
only to it's own nswindow... and qtkit overwrites everything!)

so i moved to vlc -I rc and apollo flash runtime(transparent window)  
in front... (works fine.. flash talks to vlc using -Irc socket)
but i get that anoying white flashing

so a vlc.framework static window behind... sounds perfect!


anyway... sorry for the long bla bla ... i'll start compiling a fresh  
vlc with your framework...

thanks
-mart



On 10-May-07, at 4:25 PM, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:

>
> On 10 mai 07, at 01:36, Martin Forget wrote:
>
>> hi everyone,
>>
>> i am developping a settop interface using VLC for mac os x  
>> (appletv actually)
>>
>> i am using vlc for video rendering... using -f -Irc  which gives  
>> me good enough control,
>> but when i change item on the playlist... the screen goes white...  
>> black...white...black .. then the video plays.
>> (when the vout thread is initialized... the movie appears in  
>> normal screen... the fullscreen blank(white).. then the video
>>
>> i need to get rid of the "flashing"
>>
>> do anyone has a suggestion?
>
> Wait for the Mac OS X VLC.framework :)
>
> http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2007_Project_Mac_OS_X_Framework
>
> Alternativly you could lurk in the sources, but I guess trying to  
> use the framework would be your best solution. For now it is not  
> finished by you can already have a look at it. If you need more  
> help on this side, I'll be happy to ear about the problems you  
> encounter.
>
> Pierre.
>
>
>
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