[vlc] Status of Søren Bøg's SoC 2007 Project - Dynamic Video Overlays

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Keith Kyzivat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a project using java and jvlc to basically simulate and
> preview a cable set top box experience, that will involve some simple
> overlays.
> 
> Target OSes are Windows and Mac OS X (with my own personal goal of Linux -
> which shouldn't be hard to meet if I can use jvlc).
> 
> My current plan of attack for the video overlay portion is, just to use
> non-hardware accelerated video playback (i.e. not using DirectShow or
> similar hardware accelerated video output modules), and overlaying a panel I
> can put widgets on overtop the video.
> 
> Of course, being able to support hardware acceleration video output would be
> great to have, so I am curious what the current status of the 'Dynamic Video
> Overlays' project is.  From reading the SoC 2007 Project Dynamic Video
> Overlays page<http://wiki.videolan.org/SoC_2007_Project_Dynamic_Video_Overlays>,
> it appears that this code lies partially completed, and uncommitted.
> 
> 
> So, my question is:
> How far along is this project in terms of it's completion?
> 

It has been merged into 0.9.0

> A followup would be - Where can I find the code to poke around with?

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

ls modules/video_filter/dynamicoverlay/

> Should I be posting this on the vlc-devel mailing list?  I hesitated to do
> that initially, as I didn't want to contribute to lowering the SNR.
> 
> BTW - Great job with the current progress of VLC 0.9.0 -- it's looking
> great!
Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman.