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

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