Re: Video display

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 16:20, Alf C Stockton wrote:

> Is it possible to display a video in a frame as a screen saver to wait till
> the user presses a button. I don't care, at this point in time, if it is an
> mpeg, avi or whatever; just can it be done & if so how.

It could be done, for example, using the GStreamer framework. Have a look at 
aldegonde [2], which is a very simple video player using GStreamer. Even 
though aldegonde itself requires Gnome libraries, you should be able to rip 
out the video widget and reuse it in a Gtk+-only app without problems, 
provided the license (LGPL) is compatible with yours of course. Apart from 
the GStreamer core, the only other requirements would be the GStreamer 
plugins required to demux and decode the video of your choice. Shouldn't be 
too much code overall.

I'm sure the xine guys have similar solutions.

Cheers
 -Tim

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org
[2] http://ronald.bitfreak.net/me/aldegonde.php