[gst-devel] [directdrawsink] Overlay Support?

[Michael Smith]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Thomas Loewe <lazyt at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> The changes here to remove the L prefix suggest that you're incorrect
> compiling this in non-unicode mode - your build system (whatever it is
> you're using) should be defining UNICODE or _UNICODE or something to
> make this work correctly.
>
> Ok UNICODE works, thanks.

Great. Please remember to file a bug for the other thing you patched, though.

>
>> I'm not precisely sure what you mean - can you show the code you're using
>> to do this?
>
> I mean the "gst_x_overlay_set_xwindow_id(GST_X_OVERLAY(videosink),
> (gulong)outputwindow);" function. With directdrawsink/xvimagesink i can
> switch the output to another window during playing pipeline. This doesn't
> work with dshowvideosink at the moment.

Ok, that should probably work - it's not needed for the stuff I'm
using (hence I don't test it), but it should; if you file a bug I'll
see if it's practical to fix it.

Mike