Re: [xine-devel] using xine-ui for digital TV - lots of issues

[Hans-Dieter K. <hd...@t-...>]

Hi Peter,

Peter Zelezny wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been using xine-ui-0.99.5 and xine-lib-1.1.7 to watch
> digital TV (DVB-T) via xxmc.
> 
> I've noticed a few problems, two of which are solved in a crude
> way with the patch attached.
> 
> 1) When dragging another window over the xine video window, it
> causes ugly expose events (flashing/flicker). Removing the Expose
> XEvent handling solved this for me. Why do we need to handle expose
> when the picture is updated 50 times a second? Maybe this should be
> changed to only handle Expose when a video is NOT playing.
> 
> 2) When moving xine around, it causes the same annoying flicker. I
> don't know why this is, because the window is not changing size. The
> second part of the patch also fixed it, but obviously I can't just
> remove code that's there for a reason. Any help with that?
> 
> 3) GUI lockups during channel changing. I'll leave this for another day.
> 
> 4) Returning to the "XINE" logo during play. This is a regression I
> noticed after upgrading xine-lib/xine-ui to the latest version. Will
> have to look deeper into this.
> 
Sorry for the late answer. I'll check your patch and see what can be 
applied appropriately. It would be helpful if you could tell more 
details about issues 3) and 4).

Hans-Dieter