Intone-video problems!! Help !
Marcel
tanuva at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 14 13:15:12 CEST 2009
Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 13:10:38 schrieb George Brooke:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 11:58:41 Robin Paulson wrote:
> > 2009/4/14 c_c <cchandel at yahoo.com>:
> > > Well, seeing that there was a need for a video playing front end for
> > > mplayer - I thought I'll make a new app (based on Intone) that fulfills
> > > this need.
> > >
> > > Here are the problems I'm facing :-
> > > 1. I finally found out that I can create 2 windows using elementary, 1
> > > for mplayer to play the video in (using -wid) and one for the controls.
> > > I've sized the windows to 640x400 for the window where the video shows
> > > up and 640x80 for the controls. But I can't seem to get to see the main
> > > window (the one that has the controls) at all. It works fine on my
> > > desktop - but I'm not using illume there.
> >
> > i think the config of illume on the neo forces windows to be
> > maximised, so even if your windows is 20 x 20, it will fill the whole
> > screen. either you need to modify this behaviour, or fit it all in one
> > window
> >
> > i wanted to do a similar thing myself for an app i'm developing, but
> > any parameters to place/size windows are ignored, afaics
>
> Maybe something could be done with dialogs - these don't seem to be
> maximised on my neo.
But they still get centered afaik. What about splitting the window in two
parts, one playing the video and one with the controls? Or does that interfere
with your mplayer approach?
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Marcel
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