I’m a developer trying to intregrate SDL into my program, but I’m beginning
to question the feasibility of what I want to do.
Basically, I’m creating a multi-platform application in which I would like
to display video windows and play MPEGs within them. From what I
understand, SDL was targetted for single-window and/or full-screen
applications, and it was NOT made for creating a simple overlay window
within a Gtk/Java/MFC window to play a video on (which is exactly what I’m
trying to do). I can position the video window just fine in Linux with X
windows but I can’t find out how to position the video window in Windows.
Also, I would like to show more than one video window in my application at a
time (i.e. There’s a video in the background, the user clicks a button to
load another video, and the new video is previewed in the new top window).
Does SDL have the capability to do this, even with a hack? Or is there any
other library which can give me a hardware overlay window in which I can
show a video in? I’ve researched these topics quite extensively and I’m
wondering if anyone else has given up and just used something else (which is
multi-platform mind you) or just done it with lots of hacks. Any input will
be appreciated.
-Jeff Hansen
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Hi,
You can get multiple windows using Paragui, which actually is a widget
library built on top of SDL. I am not sure whether video can be shown (
i’ve not used that functionality), but I think that it should be
possible.
http://www.bms-austria.com/projects/paragui/index.php
Regards
Vibhu…On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 04:45, Jeff Hansen wrote:
I’m a developer trying to intregrate SDL into my program, but I’m beginning
to question the feasibility of what I want to do.
Basically, I’m creating a multi-platform application in which I would like
to display video windows and play MPEGs within them. From what I
understand, SDL was targetted for single-window and/or full-screen
applications, and it was NOT made for creating a simple overlay window
within a Gtk/Java/MFC window to play a video on (which is exactly what I’m
trying to do). I can position the video window just fine in Linux with X
windows but I can’t find out how to position the video window in Windows.
Also, I would like to show more than one video window in my application at a
time (i.e. There’s a video in the background, the user clicks a button to
load another video, and the new video is previewed in the new top window).
Does SDL have the capability to do this, even with a hack? Or is there any
other library which can give me a hardware overlay window in which I can
show a video in? I’ve researched these topics quite extensively and I’m
wondering if anyone else has given up and just used something else (which is
multi-platform mind you) or just done it with lots of hacks. Any input will
be appreciated.
-Jeff Hansen
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De: sdl-request at libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-request at libsdl.org]
Enviado el: viernes, 27 de diciembre de 2002 21:01
Para: sdl at libsdl.org
Asunto: SDL digest, Vol 1 #624 - 10 msgs
Message: 2
From: sqrammi@hotmail.com (Jeff Hansen)
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:15:08 -0700
Subject: [SDL] Multiple SDL
Reply-To: sdl at libsdl.org
I’m a developer trying to intregrate SDL into my program, but I’m beginning
to question the feasibility of what I want to do.
Basically, I’m creating a multi-platform application in which I would like
to display video windows and play MPEGs within them. From what I
understand, SDL was targetted for single-window and/or full-screen
applications, and it was NOT made for creating a simple overlay window
within a Gtk/Java/MFC window to play a video on (which is exactly what I’m
trying to do). I can position the video window just fine in Linux with X
windows but I can’t find out how to position the video window in Windows.
Also, I would like to show more than one video window in my application at a
time (i.e. There’s a video in the background, the user clicks a button to
load another video, and the new video is previewed in the new top window).
Does SDL have the capability to do this, even with a hack? Or is there any
other library which can give me a hardware overlay window in which I can
show a video in? I’ve researched these topics quite extensively and I’m
wondering if anyone else has given up and just used something else (which is
multi-platform mind you) or just done it with lots of hacks. Any input will
be appreciated.
-Jeff Hansen
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