Activex : Start activex with hidden display.

[artur]

Hello,

First of all, i would like to thank you all for vlc and its plugins. I asked for vlc activex for IE last summer and it's already available. Great !

I would like to start vlc activex in a simple html page (as the one provided as an example) but with hidden video (invisible object).

To do that i set "ShowDisplay" parameter to "False" as follows :

<param name="ShowDisplay" value="False" />

But it does not work, the html page starts and i can see the video.

Do you have any idea how to make it work ?
By the way : i am aware we can achieve this working with DIVs and styles but it would be nice to manage it with activex object parameters.

Best regards,

Artur.[/b]

[artur]

In fact it does not work either with hidden DIV (html layer). In this case vlc opens a popup window (called : VLC hardware YUV overlay DirectX output) to show the video when it starts.

In conclusion i was unable to start ActiveX with an open video stream without seeing the output...

[Quovodis]

thanks for the bug report, 'ShowDisplay' PARAM name has been fixed and should be available in the SVN repository

[Quovodis]

a workaround could be to set the width/height of the plugin to 0, then size it to full size through scripting whenever you want to display it