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Re: [pygame] mpeg is always on top

To: owner-pygame-users@seul.org, Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
Subject: Re: [pygame] mpeg is always on top
From: "R. Alan Monroe" <amonroe@columbus.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:48:00 -0400
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> Alexander 'boesi' Bösecke wrote:
>> I'm using pygame.movie for showing a mpeg and it works quite well. Only
>> one thing is frustrating - the movie is always on top over all other
>> windows, the frame of the movie window goes to background but not the
>> movie itself. 

> SDL and SMPEG use the video overlay planes to make video playback 
> faster. As you've discovered, this also means the video plays on top of 
> everything on the screen.

How does Drempels or Milkdrop desktop mode do it? It uses the overlay somehow, but
it's not frontmost.

Alan

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- [pygame] mpeg is always on top
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- Re: [pygame] mpeg is always on top
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