[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] DVDnav support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:48:04AM +0400, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> >Several months back I proposed that we update the input system to have
> >multiple 'contexts', so that you could have a separate "menu" context
> >where the arrow keys mean move around in the menu, rather than seek,
> >etc. I'm sure this would be useful for other things in the future too,
> >like controlling flash movies once we support flash. Care to implement
> >such a feature?
> > 
> >
> It'll be a good feature. but how do you mean to select "context"? by 
> stream->type, or what?

Context would be a ui matter, not exclusively determined by stream
type. For example, the dvdmenu context would only be selected when on
a menu, not when in the middle of the movie where you'd want to seek.

> Suppose, it could be added, but it is'n very important. Other thing: I 

Well it's just silly IMHO to have to find new keys for stuff like this
all the time because the same set of keymaps has to be shared
globally.

> can't imagine many contexts:
> nav, menu (I mean OSD menu, not DVD), flash (don't understood, but you 
> wrote...), tv. What's
> more? ( I mean _really_ different contexts).

That's probably about all for now, but certainly a plenty to make it
worthwhile. For flash, think of flash movies that require input to
make things happen.

Rich