[gst-devel] stopping video sets the background to black -- can I change this color?

[Erik Blankinship]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>wrote:

> hi,
>
> Am 31.10.2010 03:55, schrieb Erik Blankinship:
> > When I set my pipeline to state null (i.e. pressing stop), my xvimagesink
> (or
> > ximagesink) changes to the color black.
> >
> > Can I set this color?
> >
>
> No, you would need to turn off some things on xvimagesink and manage them
> yourself. I don't remember exactly which one: "autopaint-colorkey",
> "handle-expose" - you could check the source of the plugin.
>
>
Just toggling those parameters had no effect (except, sometimes the video
wouldn't show up at all).  And just setting "colorkey" didn't  seem to do
anything either (but I was real excited for a minute hoping it would work).

Is the idea to listen for x expose events and hide the component?
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