On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:49, Aubin Paul wrote:
> Well, since we use Pygame/SDL, it would be possible to do that kind of
> stuff, but I like Freevo's "quiet" interface because I work in the
> same room as my TV and it's on all the time :)
I can appreciate that. :) It would be easy to make a setting where you
could make the menus static by just pausing mplayer.
> Hmm... perhaps you should generate a seamless loop and "play" that via
> mplayer. Do the rendering in advance and then let mplayer handle it
> since it's already optimized for playback.
Yeah, that's the idea. You'd call mplayer like this:
mplayer -vf scale=800:-2,expand=800:600,bmovl2=/tmp/mplayer.fifo \
whirly-background.mpg -fixed-vo -loop 0
Mplayer will seamlessly loop this movie. The whirly-background example
is a bit fast and to make it less annoying should be slowed down (Tivo's
animation is quite slow). You could simulate that with -fps 20 or -fps
15, but then that will impact the animation speed of anything done with
bmovl2 as well. This is a problem in general (because what if the user
wants to play something that happens to be, for whatever reason, 5 fps),
so I will be looking at having bmovl2 update independently of frame
rate.
Right now I am spending a bit of time looking at how to optimize the
blending routines in bmovl2. They'd definitely benefit from MMX.
> Well, we'd always welcome more options... :) And more competition is
> always good for users...
And for stealing ideas from each other. :)
Cheers,
Jason.
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