On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Arvind R <arvin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My understanding is that emotion gets the video backend to render RGBA >> to the evas canvas that is then displayed by the ecore-evas backend. >> Correct? > > Actually it outputs to YUV as well, being converted to RGB by CPU (mmx/sse) > or GPU (OpenGL). > > > If so, would it be possible, for instance, using the xine backend to >> render directly to screen using whatever HW-accleration available to >> it, and have the evas-canvas as an 'underlay' to the video screen in >> order to trap events. This would mean modifying the emotion-xine >> module to be an interceptor in the xine pipeline instead of being a >> video_output driver. >> >> Feasible? >> > > Yes, Cedric did this for Gstreamer. There is support for that in > Evas_Object_Image with Evas_Video_Surface that you can use to hook and > change the underlying backend. At the Evas level it will draw an empty hole > in the image region, leaving it to the top/below HW plane to draw it.
Sadly it did get broken in E17 and I have no time to go and fix it. I may go back at it, but I am more interested in making this feature and some that come with it work with Wayland than with X. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
