Transparent Video Overlay

[mstrswrd06]

I'm looking for a feature that would show video as transparent or semitransparent over all other desktop items, so that you can watch video while browsing the web or while doing other things. I know of only one media player that does this, and that is the ATI File Player, which is horribly buggy.

[BugMeNot2]

YES PLEASE!

I love that feature of the ATI MMC (the file player and the TV app). It lets you turn the video window into a selectively transparent, click-through-able overlay on the screen. Basically the video just plays over top of whatever else you are doing, thus staying completely out of the way. If VLC could do this, it would be perfect!

For the most part, you just need to set

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(WS_EX_TRANSPARENT | WS_EX_TOPMOST | WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW | WS_EX_LAYERED & ~WS_CAPTION)

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Patches are welcome.