I would like to see you in Freevo's team :)
We already thought about using MPlayer as video device, but since we
use SDL and it supports a lot of devices, it fits just well.
One way to do that would be writing a SDL patch to use
mplayer+bmovl2 as device...
Also, how will you keep mplayer open even without movies and how
will you load movies from inside mplayer?
And now, let me try to convince you to join us:
Freevo is a cool plataform, we handle every screen layout using
XML, we have a great plugin framework. As we lack a dedicated graphical
artist we don't look that cool, although Aubin does an excellent job as
our graphical artist.
We don't have anything animated, but I don't think it's that hard
to do... but we have to be carefull with CPU usage, since some people
use Freevo in 400mhz cpus...
You can join us and implement the animation support. It would be a
great thing.
PS: If you know some graphical artist, please tell :)
Thanks,
Gustavo
--- Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:41, Aubin Paul wrote:
> > It looks very interesting to me; I'm going to try it if possible;
> > though currently, the patch doesn't apply against mplayer CVS; is
> > there a more current version?
>
> Yeah, it was patched from CVS on Monday, so things have clearly
> changed
> since then. I'll email here an updated patch and as well a sample
> test
> program (which will use imlib2, sorry) for your experimentation.
> Check
> back here in a couple hours.
>
> Just so that you know my motives: I had an idea a couple weeks ago
> about
> using Mplayer as a graphics platform for a Freevo like program. It
> would rely on Mplayer to do all visual display (menus, as well as
> video
> playing), so basically you get for free support for all devices on
> which
> mplayer works.
>
> I was initially inspired by seeing videos of Tivo in action. It has
> very cool animated backgrounds and sliding menus and I am such a
> sucker
> for eye candy. I whipped up in the gimp a similar whirling/fading
> background and am using that as a background for the menu, which is
> displayed via bmovl[2].
>
> Here is a screenshot:
>
> http://people.auc.ca/tack/archive/2003-10/mplayer-experiment.jpg
>
> The background here is animated and wavy, and the "Programs" slides
> across the screen and fades away, copying somewhat blatantly how the
> Tivo works (and much more amateurishly, since I'm pretty pathetic
> when
> it comes to the artistic stuff). You can see what I mean here --
> sorry,
> it's lame:
>
> http://people.auc.ca/tack/archive/2003-10/whirly-background.mpg
>
> The menu you see in the screenshot slides in from off screen and
> fades
> in as well. From my test program, I use the arrow keys to move up
> and
> down, and new menus slide and fade in, and the existing one slides
> off
> screen and fades out. It's a very nice effect and in spite of the
> whole
> thing using 100% of my poor Athlon 1400, it is very smooth.
>
> For mplayer to be used as a platform for this sort of thing, there
> are
> certain requirements. One is that obviously when a video is paused,
> the
> user must still be able to navigate menus. So bmovl2 allows for
> updating images while mplayer is paused. Also, to get a nice
> animated
> effect, it has a MOVE command, and allows you to change the location
> of
> an image without having to resend the whole thing through the FIFO
> each
> time. Lastly, you can specify multiple images which are stored in
> mplayer's memory which you reference by id from your application.
> (It
> acts sort of like an X server in this respect, storing pixmaps.)
> This
> allows you to, for example, have a menu in one id, and some sort of
> OSD
> background in another id, which you can slide in from off screen at
> any
> time without having to retransmit each frame over the FIFO. Much
> more
> efficient and much smoother.
>
> I think a lot of the features above also align with Freevo's goals.
> In
> my case, my project is mostly an experimentation for ideas, but it
> also
> may some day evolve into a competitor for Freevo and possibly Mythtv
> too. (Probably not, but who knows :))
>
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
> --
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> Academic Computing Support Specialist
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> Algoma University College :: www.auc.ca
>
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