On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:03:31 +0800 Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: (B (B> Hi all, (B> I've only recently installed DR17 from a fews day's ago CVS, so i'm quite (B> new to enlightenment. (B> (B> questions1: (B> I have downloaded Rasterman's tutorial for a emotion based player and all (B> compiled perfectly. (B> However when i tried a.out somefile.mpg or .avi i only got a blank black (B> screen. (B> Does anyone have any clues as to what might be wrong? (B (Byeah - its a bug with emotion on 2.6.9 kernels and later where it doesnt (Bauto-play. its some race condition with threads i'm sure but i just dont have (Btime to look into i. (B (B> question2: (B> Are there any other media (VCD/DVD) players that can so translucent (B> displays? (B (Bnone that i know of. for all of them video is opaque and they may be able to do (Btranslucent overlayed "osd" data (like a play button, time, progress bar) but (Bthats it. emotion via evas treats video as yet another object that can be alpha (Bblended, scaled and almost anything else. this does mean it actually is more (Bexpensive to do (cpu-wise) especially with a software renderer. in theory evas (Bcould short-cut the rendering given some complex "direct to drawable" clipping (Bgames to optimise the "100% opaque and nothing or very little overlayed" case - (Bbut thats a chunk of work inside evas and i havent got time for that atm. (B (B> Any comments will be most appreciated. (B> (B> Kevin (B (B (B-- (B------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- (BThe Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] $BMg9%B?(B [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BTokyo, Japan ($BEl5~(B $BF|K\(B) (B (B (B------------------------------------------------------- (BSF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide (BRead honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. (BDiscover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. (Bhttp://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click (B_______________________________________________ (Benlightenment-users mailing list ([email protected] (Bhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
