[vlc] Re: Vlc and WindowsCE 5.0

[Rick Davis]

Gildas,

	What is supported now under WindowsCE 5.0 is DirectDraw, no
DirectSound. I have been adding the UNDER_CE defs to the code. I just need
to figure out why it appears to work but yet doesn't draw anything. It looks
to me like the surface being updated isn't visible or something. I am in no
way a DirectDraw expert and have no clue what is going on. Frankly, I have
yet to figure out how the DirectDraw interface works on the Desktop. I don't
have enough knowledge of the interworkings of VLC. I think what I am going
to do is see how the GDI interface which works interfaces to the
video_output portion of vlclib. I don't understand how the overlay/page
flipping works. I don't see anywhere in the code where it actually writes
anything. I see one Blt call in Display(...) if overlays aren't used. I have
tried the --nooverlay switch, it calls the Blt function, doesn't complain,
yet nothing is displayed. The window is solid white.

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-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
Gildas Bazin
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:50 PM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] Re: Vlc and WindowsCE 5.0

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 21:10, Rick Davis wrote:
> Gildas,
> 
>  I actually tried that and it builds OK but it doesn't do anything.
> It just puts some text in a window. I couldn't get it to do anything, 
> all menu entries are disabled. Also DirectX looks like it is for a 
> previous version of WindowsCE. I can't compile it without commenting out
some code.
> It uses multimon.h which doesn't exist in WindowsCE 5.0.
> 

Ok, I asked you to use 0.8.0 because the author of the WinCE port on
sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlcpocketpc/) has not been seen
around for quite some time and has never submitted its changes back to us.
In short, the project is outdated and seems to be dead.

Now, it is true that things are missing in the WinCE port in 0.8.0. Like the
the starter code (vlc.c) but this one shouldn't be difficult to fix or the
WinCE interface which could be ported over from the vlcpocketpc code but
would require quite a bit of cleanup.

As for DirectX, I thought it wasn't available on WinCE. Has this changed
with WinCE 5.0 ? If it has, then a patch excluding the offending code with
an UNDER_CE define will be welcomed.

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