[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer GUI suggestion!

[Arpi]

Hi,

we're working (at least should work but no time) on the new libvo2.
we don't want to change or improve old libvo. the new libvo2 has
powerfull control() interface for sepcial things like your ideas.
it also supports direct rendering... but someone really should
work on it. i've ported mga driver and got it work, but nothing more.
it needs lots of things to do - implement buffer management code, including
various scaling and colorspace conversion, add osd/sub code with ability to
render under the image, and update subs only when changes... there were
lots of ideas for libvo2 but nobody is interested enough and hes enough time
to really do something :(

i'm personally like demuxer/muxer coding much better than rtfm-ing X
programming manuals and suck with the incompatible window managers...

> Hi,
> ok, first of all, who is working on the gui?
> Second, the important part. I was spawning some ideas in my head this 
> morning concerning the gui.
> 1. The current gui should be a general GUI available to themers and 
> other graphics inspired users, and also geared towards full 
> compatibility with all supported platforms.
> query_video_driver_options(i), you get the drift. 2. My idea was that 
> there should ALSO be a GUI api consisiting of prototypes like say 
> query_video_drivers(int &i). Alternate gui's should be loaded using 
> dlopen (meaning they are compiled as shared objects stored in say 
> $PREFIX/share/mplayer/plugins etc, I've worked a lot with pluggable 
> modules before and could give some tips and pointers. I might also get 
> involved in the development of this AFTER I'm satisified with the dxr3 
> a/v plugins I'm working on. (My idea was to load gui's using mplayer 
> -gui <guiname> for plugins and -gui for the standard (as it is now)
> This way there could be lots of cool plugins ( my idea was something 
> resembling m$ latest bloatware mplayer7 with limited browsing functions 
> of a page about online media etc using mozilla-dev ) and then someone 
> set up a page located at the mplayer.hu server which this gui would be 
> locked too (we don't want another mozilla based browser, just a cool 
> online updating media guide). This will also require another feature 
> which I personally see as pretty damn important. vo_* plugins SHOULD be 
> able to return raw RGB24 so we don't have to popup another video-out 
> window when using the gui (the current media player lookalike gui sucks 
> since video isn't within the gui as it should be but in a separate window).
> Hopefully someone will pick up on this and add this to the video_out 
> api, then bear in mind (since I'm working on the dxr3 plugin ;), 
> query_output should have at least two outputs, raw rgb OR make the vo_* 
> driver draw the video at location x,y on screen using widht,height, the 
> dxr3 uses and overlay cable to play video on the monitor so it won't hog 
> the video board or cpu...
> 
> //David Holm
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