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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:05 +0200, Rafał Chłodnicki <rchl2k at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Vicente Jiménez<googuy at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> keyword - windowsless plugin
>
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference/Drawing_and_Event_Handling#Windowless_Plug-ins

VLC/Unix does not support drawing to an X11 Pixmap at the moment. It always
create one (VLC 1.1 with XCB), or rather two (VLC <= 1.0 with Xlib) nested
windows. I would not be surprised if VLC/Win32 had a similar limitation.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont