From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2005-04-26 06:34:28
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:03:31 +0800 Kevin <kev...@gm...> babbled: > Hi all, > I've only recently installed DR17 from a fews day's ago CVS, so i'm quite > new to enlightenment. > > questions1: > I have downloaded Rasterman's tutorial for a emotion based player and all > compiled perfectly. > However when i tried a.out somefile.mpg or .avi i only got a blank black > screen. > Does anyone have any clues as to what might be wrong? yeah - its a bug with emotion on 2.6.9 kernels and later where it doesnt auto-play. its some race condition with threads i'm sure but i just dont have time to look into i. > question2: > Are there any other media (VCD/DVD) players that can so translucent > displays? none that i know of. for all of them video is opaque and they may be able to do translucent overlayed "osd" data (like a play button, time, progress bar) but thats it. emotion via evas treats video as yet another object that can be alpha blended, scaled and almost anything else. this does mean it actually is more expensive to do (cpu-wise) especially with a software renderer. in theory evas could short-cut the rendering given some complex "direct to drawable" clipping games to optimise the "100% opaque and nothing or very little overlayed" case - but thats a chunk of work inside evas and i havent got time for that atm. > Any comments will be most appreciated. > > Kevin -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... 裸好多 ra...@de... Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) |