Re: [xine-devel] closing the video device?

[Miguel F. <mfr...@gm...>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:24:27 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone
<bj...@co...> wrote:
> ok, now to my question.  we have the param
> XINE_PARAM_AUDIO_CLOSE_DEVICE, but no corresponding param to close the
> video device. 

yes, there is none. unfortunately video device is not as simple: we
allocate frames from the X server (which are not disposed during the
lifetime of the vo driver) and we also must use that xv grab port
thingy.

> 1) i'd like to temporarily close the video device while playing
> audio-only streams, without having to destroy/create a new xine_stream_t
> instance.

you don't have to. you may use rewire functions for changing the video
port without disposing the stream. i'd recommend you to check kaffeine
code since it supports changing video driver on the fly, this code is
already written.


> any help would be appreciated.  btw, thanks for the great work on xine;
> i've been using it and off-and-on following development for a while now
> (probably 3-4 years or so), and i'm impressed on how far it's come.

thank you for using xine! ;-)

miguel