[Bf-taskforce25] 2.5 movie player

[William Reynish]

Well, the whole point is to not make it too hidden ;) At the same  
time, overlaid controls can interfere with the video you're trying to  
watch. For a movie player like VLC that's no real issue because you  
are not likely to really use those controls (other than pressing  
play), but in Blender you are likely to scrub, stop, rewind while  
studying your creations.

Regarding full-screen playback, then you are right, the only sane  
solution is to put the controls inside the video. And if the controls  
are minimal enough it shouldn't be too disturbing (These controls are  
an example of nice simplicity: http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/images/overlay_quicktime_02_20090608.jpg)

Cheers

On 16 Jun, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Pablo Vazquez - www.venomgfx.com.ar wrote:

> eek no no extra interface than the one needed to display the video, I
> would prefer something like VLC's or mplayer's interface on
> fullscreen, that overlays the video via OSD and displays/disappear at
> hotkeys, but never uses extra space than the one needed by the video,
> so if you're displaying a 720p HD video on a 15" laptop screen (which
> usually is 1280px by 720/800px) the controls won't need any extra
> space than the one occupied by the video (that actually fits perfectly
> on the screen as fullscreen). Try on VLC to Shift + Left/Right on
> fullscreen, or Ctrl + Up/Down.
>
> Shouldn't be that hard if everything is already OpenGL, but as you I
> don't know either if this could be done or not, but I wouldn't like to
> have playback buttons separate from the space that is actually
> displaying the video.
>
>
> * Pablo Vazquez
> Freelance 3D Artist
> info at venomgfx.com.ar
> www.venomgfx.com.ar
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 22:25, William Reynish<william at reynish.com>  
> wrote:
>> Good points.
>>
>> The current player has these really weird fps settings like 20 fps  
>> and
>> 50 fps that are completely non-standard. But with a number field you
>> could set it to anything.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On 16 Jun, 2009, at 9:47 PM, Nathan Vegdahl wrote:
>>
>>> I like this a lot except for two points:
>>>
>>> 1. The timeline slider shouldn't overlap the video, even if it does
>>> have transparency.
>>> 2. IMO the speed control should, ideally, be a number field with  
>>> fps.
>>> (And if we allow negative fps, then we can play backwards! :-P)
>>>
>>> --Nathan V
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM, William
>>> Reynish<william at reynish.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Here's a fun proposal to put a graphical user interface in the
>>>> Blender
>>>> movie player. Currently you can pause, play, rewind, scrub, and  
>>>> even
>>>> regulate playback speed. However, all these features are hidden  
>>>> under
>>>> secret keyboard commands.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/movieplayer.png
>>>>
>>>> I do wonder how easy this is to do though. Is the Blender movie
>>>> player
>>>> even OpenGL?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> -William
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