[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Don't unnecessarily stop Win32 GUI playback

Stephen Sheldon sfsheldo at gmail.com
Sun Feb 9 19:20:27 CET 2014


On 2/9/2014 10:13 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
> Stephen Sheldon wrote on Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:02:17 -0800:
>
>> On a slightly different topic, when I implemented idle mode in the
>> Preferences dialog, I asked what the defaults should be, and we were
>> puzzled about "Display in the Video Window".  We decided it applied only
>> to DirectX, maybe because that driver referenced some variables having
>> to do with that option.  Recently I was puzzled why I did not get the
>> video menu when I right clicked in the video window when a movie was
>> playing.  When the option "Display in the Video Window" was set, I did
>> get the video menu.  Without that option there was a console message
>> about no bind for MOUSE_BTN2.  I think the option means let the GUI
>> handle the window or not.
> AFAIR, the video can either be displayed in the video window that the GUI
> creates and controls (which should then provide a context menu) or Windows
> can put it in an own window (which lacks the context menu).
>
>> I also think that changing the driver and using the Video Window option
>> might be a bad idea.
> I'm not sure I'm taking your point here. Bad or good idea? Are you suggesting
> any changes?
>
>
Maybe not much of a point.  I did try changing drivers with and without 
the "Display in Video Window" and it did not make any difference.


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