Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am Freitag 04 Juni 2010, 23:47:07 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: another approach might be to make it a kwin plugin, and have the video window rendered beneath the PMC window using a compositing plugin. this plugin would need to know what the video window is and what the PMC window is (can be done

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Marco Martin
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On June 4, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: At the very beginning we had the idea to put a plain VideoWidget behind the transparent-made containment (really, the Plasma::View) but IIRC this is not possible as long as there

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Markus
On Saturday 05 June 2010 11:21:24 Marco Martin wrote: A problem with this approach is that with some crappy video drivers (for sure intel drivers at least And considering that HTPCs are currently most likely Atom-based (hence Intel GMA 500 / Poulsbo), your point is even more valid.

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Christopher Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Markus kamika...@web.de wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 11:21:24 Marco Martin wrote: A problem with this approach is that with some crappy video drivers (for sure intel drivers at least And considering that HTPCs are currently most likely Atom-based (hence

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Markus
On Saturday 05 June 2010 16:41:15 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: That assumption is flawed since you can't watch Hulu on an Atom w/o terrible frame drops and tearing. Doesn't Hulu use Flash? Flash's suckiness on X11 platforms and Mac OS X is well-known.

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Christopher Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Markus kamika...@web.de wrote: Doesn't Hulu use Flash? Flash's suckiness on X11 platforms and Mac OS X is well-known. Well, until they fix it, it is was it is. Also I think an Atom processor would be hard pressed to decode and display 1080p video files

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Markus
On Saturday 05 June 2010 18:34:51 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: PMC has a long way to go before we can use something like VDPAU. Isn't that something a Phonon/QtMultimedia back-end has to take care of and not Plasma? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Christopher Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Markus kamika...@web.de wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 18:34:51 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: PMC has a long way to go before we can use something like VDPAU. Isn't that something a Phonon/QtMultimedia back-end has to take care of and not Plasma? Likely, but

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Markus
On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:50:45 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Markus kamika...@web.de wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 18:34:51 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: PMC has a long way to go before we can use something like VDPAU. Isn't that something a

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Christopher Blauvelt
There is only one proper API and that's VA-API -- a freedesktop.orgstandard with back-ends for all common GPUs. Wow, that sounds almost religious. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Markus
On Saturday 05 June 2010 21:53:37 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: Wow, that sounds almost religious. So instead of answering my question, you insult me? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-05 Thread Christopher Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Markus kamika...@web.de wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2010 21:53:37 Christopher Blauvelt wrote: Wow, that sounds almost religious. So instead of answering my question, you insult me? I wouldn't call that an insult. Either way we've hijacked this thread by

[Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-04 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
Hello everybody. As some of you may already know I'm currently trying to guide the Plasma Media Center project and I'm quite happy with the results we are achieving. The project is still highly work in progress and therefore we have issues here and there i'd like to point out in this mail. The

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On June 4, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: At the very beginning we had the idea to put a plain VideoWidget behind the transparent-made containment (really, the Plasma::View) but IIRC this is not possible as long as there is a window registered as desktop in the WM. the PMC (plasma media

Re: [Plasma Media Center] some advice request

2010-06-04 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Alessandro Diaferia alediafe...@gmail.com wrote: How should I handle such events in order to allow further extension via other kind of input devices? Any hint for me? I think the ideal solution would be for the KDE shortcut system to be changed to a pluggable