[vlc] Re: Vlc and WindowsCE 5.0

Rick Davis rickdavisjr at comcast.net
Fri Nov 12 11:57:40 CET 2004


Gildas,

	Thanks. I'll give it a try. 
--
	Rick
--
This is the vlc mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ To
unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html


-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
Gildas Bazin
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:52 AM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] Re: Vlc and WindowsCE 5.0

On Thursday 11 November 2004 03:22, Rick Davis wrote:
> 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.
> 

It could be that the DirectDraw capabilites are not reported correctly by
your drivers. To check that, try --nooverlay --directx-use-sysmem
--nodirectx-hw-yuv.

--
Gildas

--
This is the vlc mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ To
unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html



-- 
This is the vlc mailing-list, see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
To unsubscribe, please read http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html



More information about the vlc mailing list