Controls should be black with 80% opacity

[Cody Garver]

We should be able to see video through the controls if it's loaded.

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

This is a very hard issue. I've looked into this today and did not really found a solution. At first I tried to draw something using Cairo, but these controls get overwritten by the video output of GStreamer. In gst-plugins-good-0.10.33 there is support for having a Cairo overlay over GStreamer video, but this version is not packaged for the main distro's (latest included version is 0.10.30).

Another issue is that with Cairo we only control the drawing of the OSD. Since these are not widgets we'll also need to implement event-handling (clicks, dragging the progress indicator) our selves, which is something non-trivial.

As long as Gtk.Overlay does not support transparency and gst-plugins-good-0.10.33 is not standard I see no simple solution to this problem. If anybody has better ideas, please let me know.

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

One alternative to using an overlay is to use a transparent window like iTuxer does for Scene: https://github.com/iTuxer/Scene

For full screen I see some options here, but to get the controls like in the 'screenshot' from the the project description, this does not seem to help (or we should be able to move it exactly like the main window).

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

Solved with the new clutter branch.