[gst-devel] fullscreen video show and hide

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:56 +0000, John Buckley wrote:

Hi,

> I have a a GTK+ application with buttons on the main panel.
> When I click a Record button I want streaming video to appear
> fullscreen.
> When the user clicks the video screen anywhere, I want the video to
> stop and disappear and go back to the main window.
> Does anyone have any examples of anything like this using either popup
> windows or gstxoverlays.

You could look at the totem code, it supports something like this. If
you're lucky, it's sufficient to make GStreamer render into your
application window and then just fullscreen/unfullscreen that using your
toolkit's API for that on the window handle.

Cheers
 -Tim