Using compositing means that the OSD's resolution doesn't depend on the resolution of the video, meaning crisp OSD whatever the movie watched.
And there's at least 3 window managers with compositing that don't require 3D.
By the way, the OSD is transparent, and fades away after a couple of seconds.
11 November 2009 at 17:59
Anonymous said...
Any plans on making nicer menus like Quicktime?
Would love the controls inside the video (maybe optional) and not only in fullscreen, I think it's also awesome in window-mode so you don't ^H constantly to hide controls.
There is a player written with Clutter doing that, but I think inside Totem it would be way more useful :)
A better popup for the fullscreen mode is definitely on the cards.
It might also be interesting to use the fullscreen changes when in windowed mode and the controls are hidden, but it's not anywhere near the top of my TODO list.
If there's one thing I would love to have in Totem, it would that it remembers that I had hidden the controls when I closed it, so it doesn't show them again when I open it the next time.
...and now i suddenly feel like the only one who loves the totem (and epiphany) full screen modes. elegant and simple. doesn't need to be super flashy :)
FWIW, the tearing only happened because I took a screenshot of it (or at least, it wasn't visible during normal playback).
No plans on drawing the subtitles the same way I'm afraid. You might want to talk to the GStreamer people about this though.
12 November 2009 at 09:46
Anonymous said...
From a simple screenshot I can conclude you have an intel video card.
This kind of tearing is a specialty for intel video card. I have never seen such artifacts on other video cards, not on a Amd Duron 850Mhz back in year 2000!
Its amazing, isn't?
Im watching movies on my 4 year old laptop, because its much better (for video), then my current 4GB ram, intel 4500MHD, dual-core laptop.
Best regards, Khiraly
12 November 2009 at 13:32
Anonymous said...
This has nothing to do with the intel driver. It would appear the same with a software-rasterized X Server. The gdk image getter used by the gnome screen shot program is intentionally broken as far as getting coherent images in exchange for interactivity while screenshotting.
The interactivity would be better fixed by making the screenshotter make a copy of the screen and then do the chunked getimage from that snapshot on its own time.
21 November 2009 at 15:54
Totem in master now has purdy OSD when you press a key, or a key on your remote control, and you're in fullscreen. Note that this requires compositing. [Image]Screenshot streaming the Avatar HD trailer
"A little OSD"
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Compositing for such a simple thing? Bloody hellfire! :-)
11 November 2009 at 17:50
Using compositing means that the OSD's resolution doesn't depend on the resolution of the video, meaning crisp OSD whatever the movie watched.
And there's at least 3 window managers with compositing that don't require 3D.
By the way, the OSD is transparent, and fades away after a couple of seconds.
11 November 2009 at 17:59
Any plans on making nicer menus like Quicktime?
Would love the controls inside the video (maybe optional) and not only in fullscreen, I think it's also awesome in window-mode so you don't ^H constantly to hide controls.
There is a player written with Clutter doing that, but I think inside Totem it would be way more useful :)
11 November 2009 at 18:12
A better popup for the fullscreen mode is definitely on the cards.
It might also be interesting to use the fullscreen changes when in windowed mode and the controls are hidden, but it's not anywhere near the top of my TODO list.
11 November 2009 at 19:03
« so you don't ^H constantly to hide controls. »
If there's one thing I would love to have in Totem, it would that it remembers that I had hidden the controls when I closed it, so it doesn't show them again when I open it the next time.
11 November 2009 at 20:03
...and now i suddenly feel like the only one who loves the totem (and epiphany) full screen modes. elegant and simple. doesn't need to be super flashy :)
thanks for the osd
11 November 2009 at 22:14
any plans for drawing the subtitles this way?
12 November 2009 at 02:12
OSD good, tearing bad
12 November 2009 at 05:56
...and with purdy tearing artefacts ;)
12 November 2009 at 07:54
FWIW, the tearing only happened because I took a screenshot of it (or at least, it wasn't visible during normal playback).
No plans on drawing the subtitles the same way I'm afraid. You might want to talk to the GStreamer people about this though.
12 November 2009 at 09:46
From a simple screenshot I can conclude you have an intel video card.
This kind of tearing is a specialty for intel video card. I have never seen such artifacts on other video cards, not on a Amd Duron 850Mhz back in year 2000!
Its amazing, isn't?
Im watching movies on my 4 year old laptop, because its much better (for video), then my current 4GB ram, intel 4500MHD, dual-core laptop.
Best regards,
Khiraly
12 November 2009 at 13:32
This has nothing to do with the intel driver. It would appear the same with a software-rasterized X Server. The gdk image getter used by the gnome screen shot program is intentionally broken as far as getting coherent images in exchange for interactivity while screenshotting.
The interactivity would be better fixed by making the screenshotter make a copy of the screen and then do the chunked getimage from that snapshot on its own time.
21 November 2009 at 15:54