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I'm working on the same project as vatsaldin, and the VLC web plugin (non-totem) does play http streamed media files from our tomcat server, but the page is on a loop, and sometimes we will see 'Vlc plugin has crashed' with those errors in the log... but the video is still sometimes playing. Would t...

I have been using vlc 1.2.0 - git updates. So it is still a problem within 1.2.0 Is there a new way of rescaling images on the fly with vlc? I just need it to accept an image that is rather large. The displayed image can be scaled down. Thats what I though the --fake-width and height params did, but...

So far, anything under 4096x900 will work rather happily. I will try it with a 4096x20 image and see what the results are. However, I tried it with a 6400x900 image and VLC crashed out. There used to be an option for --fake-width and height, I was hoping that would fix it, but those options are no l...

Whenever I try and play an image larger than oh say 4096x900 VLC always crashes out because it thinks I'm trying to play a large video. Is there any way to play an image that is large with vlc? (Yes I'm using VLCj and need to integrate videos and images.) Im playing these videos/images across 4 moni...

Would changing the output that VLC uses affect anything?
How would I do that in VLCj?
How do I enable GPU decoding in VLCj?
Right now I am running an ATI card under natty, I can try switching to an nVidia card to see what happens.

Thanks so much

I thought a picture was worth 1000 words eh? The problem I'm having is pretty clear in the picture, there is some sort of tearing where the overlapped video is. The video like, restarts from the top, so the bottom portion is missing. When I turned off OpenGL in compiz it solved the tearing issue, bu...

Using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty, disabling OpenGL solves this problem, but then my little weather guy looses his transparency.
Is there any way to correct this without disabling OpenGL or a way to retain transparency?

Its odd with the PNGs, but you're right about the GIFs. I tried to do a gradient to transparent, and it ended up cut off.

Ill try playing with the export settings for the PNGs.

Sherrington-

No, I had gimp output me a PNG file.

I had changed it to a GIF file for shits and giggles, because GIF also supports the alpha layer, and it works!

But the GIF color palette is kind of... limited.

Ok, I solved the transparency overlay problem. I used a separate overlay window, that was untied from the media player. But now I'm having trouble with too much transparency! The images should be solid, not transparent like this... The "banner" on the opposite side is a static JPG image ma...

That thread is about custom graphics. I just want to display an Image in transparent PNG format.
Im playing with setOverlay() now.

So what youre saying is I'm screwed on this?

Thanks for the reply, I'm not sure what you mean by disable the overlay?
You want me to turn off the image? But I need it there!

Also, how would I go about switching to OpenGL?

Sorry, I'm still new to this.

The PNG is transparent over the space where a video isnt bing played, but when I translate the image over an active video, the transparent background turns white. I'm using a JLabel with an Imageicon to create the image component, and vlcJ to initialize the video. Any ideas? Should I use something e...