[vlc-devel] VLC ActiveX plugin, window mode

Sat Jul 16 02:59:47 CEST 2011

Arno
I need to do this at some stage also. I tried a while ago using the
inbuilt overlay somewhere within the plugin that is intended for putting
logos and alike over the video with a little success, but that would not
properly colour match the surrounding html colours. I think that it was
to do with it using the hardware acceleration to draw it, but this may
work for you if colour match doesn't matter too much.
But...have you tried setting the no-overlay option when initialising the
vlc so that the video is not using hardware acceleration & just see if
it makes a difference. You may need to Google to find the details for
each.

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[mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Arno Bor |
Resulture
Sent: 15 July 2011 13:22
To: Mailing list for VLC media player developers
Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] VLC ActiveX plugin, window mode

Thank you Paul for your help.
I am one step closer towards the end goal, sadly the suggested solution
did not work out as expected on windows 7.

My new situation:

It appears that there is a work around by placing your overlay content
above an iframe, and place that iframe above the VLC video object, like
this:

---- Overlay div with content 	(i.e. z-index 30)
---- I-frame				(i.e. z-index 20)
---- VLC Video object 			(i.e. z-index 10)
(Thank you Paul for pointing that out!)

However in internet explorer 8 on Windows 7 an iframe has a white
background color so i was able to see my overlay (at last!) and hear VLC
play but could not see through the iframe. To make it transparent i had
to add allowtransparency=true to my i-frame tag, and load the i-frame
with a html file with a transparent body. The result made me able to see
my VLC video object, but my overlay content is once again hidden
underneath VLC, despite the stackflow as explained above.

Does anyone have a work-around for this that works on Internet Explorer,
run under Windows 7?

Kind regards,

Arno Bor
Technical Project Manager

Resulture BV
creating next generation organizations

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[mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org] Namens Paul Corke
Verzonden: dinsdag 12 juli 2011 11:49
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Onderwerp: Re: [vlc-devel] VLC ActiveX plugin, window mode

On 12 July 2011 09:53, Arno Bor | Resulture wrote:

> For our implementation of VLC it is vital that we are able to overlay 
> divs on a VLC video object.

Do you mean something like this:

<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
  body { background-color:#0000001; color:#fff; margin:0; padding:0; }
  .videopos { position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; width:720px;
height:576px; }
  #overlayblock { position:absolute; top:100px; left:100px; width:400px;
height:80px; background-color:#00c; color:#fff; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="videopos">
        <object classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921"
                codebase="/res/videolan/axvlc.cab"
                width="720" height="576" id="vlc" events="True" >
                <param name="Src" value="http://my.video.url/" />
                <param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
                <param name="AutoLoop" value="True" />
                <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
                <param name="Volume" value="0">
        </object>
</div>

<iframe class="videopos" frameborder="0" background="#000001"
style="background-color:#000001;"></iframe>

<div class="videopos" style="background-color:#000001;">
	<div id="overlayblock">Hello, overlay world!</div>
</div>

</body>

It may only work with IE/Win; that's all I tried.  Sorry it's not very
pretty!

Regards,

Paul.
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