[MPlayer-cygwin] Some questions about the MinGW port

[NoiseEHC]

Joey Parrish wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:57:56PM +0100, NoiseEHC wrote:
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>>3. Only video player, no music (NO .wav, .mp3...)
>>The idea here is that these require quite different UIs.
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>Not true.  Just fake a blank video stream and force OSD to show
>timecode.  I've done that in my GUI-less packages for a while.
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I am not talking about the capabilities of MPlayer, since you can easily 
play audio only
with that. What I am talking about is the user interface. For audio 
playback you need
something like WinAmp (track/album change, playlist, visualization, 
etc). For video you
only want to see a rectangle with the movie and some controls, but you 
want to hack
brightness/contrast/etc or subtitles. So it was my design goal to have a 
different video
player. If you do not beleive me then run Media Player Classis 
(mlayerc.exe) what can
be found in ACE Mega CoDeC Pack. Play audio and create a playlist. Exit 
then click a
video file and see how fucked up the GUI is.
BTW this does not mean that it should have different audio/video player 
exe-s...

>>6. External GUI probably will not be enough since there are no 
>>fullscreen controls...
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>This is not true.  I've got a frontend GUI in private dev here that
>_does_ have a fullscreen control.  It didn't require any special code,
>either.  It just works.
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>--Joey
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Can you share your code? I would rather not reimplement that if 
possible... :)
What I thought that the controls will not work in real fullscreen mode 
(which is not the same
as resizing the overlay to fullscreen).


So the goal is to create a mind blowingly simple GUI which can replace 
Media Player and their
clones completely, requires no hacking (options gallery) to work and 
avoids the DirectShow install hell.