[vlc-devel] Re : vlc mozilla plugin and html content

[Vicente Jiménez]

Mmmnn, I know that is very difficult to have any content on top of a
VLC media plugin.
I'm agree that this could be very useful.

I only found one way to do it: using a video filter. Marquee, rss or
another one maded ad-hoc and adapted to the content that needs to be
presented. I still haven't done tests but I think it's possible to use
video filters with the VLC media plugin. Another problem is how to
control them or synchronize content with video image.

But since you pointed that flash has a mode to play in background, VLC
media player has an option to put video in the desktop background, I
wonder if its possible to put VLC media plugin in the "HTML canvas
background" (whatever this could mean to the navigator). I'm just
throwing some ideas without real technical understanding of the
implications and difficulties involved.

The first think we need to understand is how flash plugin paint in the
HTML canvas background.

Cheers
vicente

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Sylvain P<sissssou at ymail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
> It seems really weird to me since for the flash plugin there exists a
> parameter "wmode" which allows to display the plugin in background and so to
> add html content above it. So if it is possible to have that for the flash
> plugin why not for the vlc plugin ?
> Is there special features inside Firefox to handle that for the flash player
> ?
>
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> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 22 Juillet 2009, 9h51mn 39s
> Objet : Re: [vlc-devel] vlc mozilla plugin and html content
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:10:02PM +0200, sissou wrote:
> [display html content above the vlc plugin]
>> I'm wondering if it is plan to add this feature to the mozilla vlc
>> plugin and if not is someone knows if it would be a hard task to
>> develop this feature.
>
> No, yes. In some cases (eg. xv overlay) it'll be next to impossible, or
> at least require digging deep into mozilla rendering and thus break the
> simple ``this part we do, that part the plugin does'' rendering model.
>
> If there is a specific situation where you want that you could venture
> to describe it in more detail.
>
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