[MPlayer-users] advanced menu in mplayer

[Adam Sulmicki]

Hello Oliver,

Thank you for your tips.

I was not aware of bmovl and I'll check it out.

Are there any other options besides bmovl (perhaps even completely
different software)?
The major problems with bmovl are that (it seems to me) :
a) it does not process input. For example when user clicks on The arrow it
should start playing, and, into the text box user should be able to enter
text.
b) does not support animations (ex : menu sliding from a side of screen).

perhaps it would be simpler to run mplayer at root window and have some
other application run over it. But this solution is not very good either as
it is just fine for dedicated box, but not for an user application.

Adam

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Adam Sulmicki <sulmicki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I have question. In the past I had used mplayer with "-menu" option.
>
> This was good, but now I need something more advanced.
>
> I immagine running mplayer in background (underlay) with -fixed-vo -loop 0
> in slave mode.
> (ie continously)
>
> and on top (in overlay) I would like to have some fancy menu. This is:
> * ability to display semi-transparent graphic (ex : this semi-translucent
> right-arrow" instead of text "play")
> * ability to enter free text (ie displays semi-transparent box and I can
> enter into the box sentences).
> * multiple choice menu.
> * semi-transparency of the text and graphics.
>
> It seems to me I can't do that with "-menu" option.
>
> what are my options here?
> what project would be closet to what I describe?
>
> any idea?
> any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Adam
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