[vlc-devel] [PATCH 0/7] provide detached video for windows

[Pierre Lamot]

On 2020-08-17 11:51, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't think this belongs in Qt at all. We already have window
> providers for this, and Qt cannot replace them. Thus it can only
> result in code/efforts duplication. Besides, we want to minimise
> platform-specific code in Qt.
> 
> We also already have a core API for fullscreen output ports, that Qt
> ought to implement instead of having its own bespoke handling.

This patchset is meant to bring the following use case. Send the video 
to a specific screen while keeping the controls on the current screen 
(presentation mode), this is different than the regular fullscreen mode 
where the controls stays over the video.
The windowed mode kinda comes for free with it.

The main advantage is that this operation can be done during the 
playback without having to stop and restart the video to select another 
video output.

My original intent was to send to video to a detached window then use 
the core fullscreen API to handle the fullscreen part, but while 
vout_ChangeFullscreen/vout_window_SetFullScreen, do provide an 
identifier parameter which may be used to specify the target screen 
vlc_player_vout_SetFullscreen, lacks the ability to pass the argument.