[vlc-devel] MAC OSX plugin frame over video

[Andre-John Mas]

On 1-Jan-2010, at 06:47, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Yair Han <YairH at optibase.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to show a context menu over the playing VLC (MAC OSC plugin) on
>> a FF or Safari. The context menu is been displayed but under the VLC.
>> 
>> It seems that the VLC is floating always on top of the browser and the menu
>> I am opening is been covered by the VLC. BTW, when there is no active video
>> playing the context menu is shown okay. The problem is when a video is
>> running,
>> 
> 
> This is a known problem, but so far no one found the bug.
> 
>> How can I fix it? Where should I start looking?
> 
> Start looking at the code in: modules/gui/minimal_macosx/
> 

From testing I found this is a frequent issue with web browser plugins. One thing
I did find is that the Quicktime plugin adds a parameter:

wmode="transparent"

which allows content to appear above the movie. You can see in the following (works best
with Safari or Google Chrome):

http://ajmas.dyndns.org/misc/web-htpc/video.html

Maybe someone can work out what the Quicktime plugin is doing? Also this may be of relevance:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/07/windowed-windowless-plugins.html

André-John