Re: [xine-devel] Full color alpha overlay

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 11:39, Kurre St=E5hlberg wrote:
> Yeah, I've been trying stuff out with it for a while now. But the most=20
> important thing for me would be using ready made images (png or=20
> whatever). Of course xine should know nothing about loading these=20
> images, but I need to be able to copy an image to overlay buffer. That's=20
> not possible AFAIK.

It is possible, and this is exactly how fonts are drawed. They are
bitmap images rendered outside xine and saved in a gzipped file. Just
check the utility that build them (it's in misc directory i guess).
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> Would it be possible to add possiblity to do all the overlay stuff=20
> (except blending it with the video frame) in gui and then just use=20
> xine_set_overlay(...) to set it active. So that I could draw to a buffer=20
> easily and then just let xine know about it.

Hmm, this is an interesting idea... and easily implementable!

> (If I remember correctly there was something like that in 0.9.9 but was=20
> removed)

No, there was not.

regards,

Miguel