On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Ivan Pantovic wrote: > is it possible to write a plugin for freevo that would display caller id > on an incoming call.
sure, just do it :) > If i understood well, it is still inposible to display freevo message > while playing movie with mplayer? not totally. the current cvs (upcoming freevo2) uses the Mevas canvas library for showing all the graphics, and whilst it uses sdl (pygame) by default, there is also a bmovl2 backend implemented. and bmovl2 is a mplayer video filter that enables showing graphics over video. i've tested it and the whole freevo2 gui shows fine in mplayer. however, afaik there is currently no way of getting the user input from mplayer back to freevo (it uses a fifo for sending the drawing commands, image data etc. to mplayer/bmovl2 - i guess a similar mechanism would work for the other direction too, but no one's done it). of course if you'd just like to show info about incoming calls while watching tv/video, that may not be a problem at all - freevo/mevas should then just use the normal pygame backend for interactive menus, and bmovl2 for just showing stuff during playback. another problem is that, again as far as a i know, bmovl2 is not included in mplayer. i don't know if it ever will -- actually tried to ask that on mplayer-dev some time ago, but have seen no responses. mplayer does include bmovl which works too, but probably worse for e.g. this need: iirc with bmovl you need to update the graphics to mplayer all the time (for every frame?), and also there is no way to change the gfx if the video is paused. with bmovl2 the images are in mplayer's memory, so you (e.g. mevas in freevo2) can just send commands to move them etc. (to have animated menus), and the graphics are updated even when the video frames do not change, i.e. you can have an updating menu / infordisplay on top of a paused video. but at least when i last looked at it, you must patch mplayer yourself to get the bmovl2 filter. for more info, patches etc. see http://projects.sault.org/mebox/ > Thanks. this is more developer than user stuff, but hopefully helpful if you wanna dig into it. i surely hope those things will progress, dunno if will have time to do anything about it soon tho. ~Toni ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
