[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] directx -wid support

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 16 December 2004 13:50, Joey Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch adds support for -wid to vo_directx.
>
> Important notes:
>   * -wid for directx is a window handle as returned by a call to
>     FindWindow in the win32 api.  VOCTRL_{ONTOP, ROOTWIN} have no
>     effect when an external window is being used.  fullscreen still
>     works.
>
>   * -geometry, when used with -wid, will specify a location relative
>     to the window rather than the screen.  this is useful for embedding
>     MPlayer into a frontend or browser.
>
>   * when using -wid, MPlayer doesn't receive window system events to
>     tell it when the window has moved.  so, Directx_ManageDisplay() is
>     called to calculate the position of the window.  this has not
>     impacted performance in my tests.  also note that calculating the
>     new values for the RECT structure takes the same exact calls as you
>     would use to simply detect the movement of the window.  so no, it
>     would not be better to check for movement and only call ManageDisplay()
>     when it's moved.
>
> This patch depends on the last two I've sent, (colorkey and monitoraspect)
> but only because I diff'd the tree in that order.  I've attached them for
> convenience in testing.
>
> Comments?  I'd like to commit this soon.
>

Just wrote a small app to test this feature. Works really nice.
Feel free to commit whenever you find the time for it.
It would really rock if there was a firefox plugin for windows MPlayer ;)

Sascha