[PATCH] Add option of adding new playlists to Plasma Media Center

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 18, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> Please use reviewboard. I still didn't have a look at the patch but i feel
> reviewboard is much better in order to point out eventual issues. The issue
> with video inside mediacenter is due to Phonon and the VideoWidget embedded
> inside a QGraphicsWidget, so it shouldn't be you :-).

this is perhaps going to sound a bit odd and perhaps even contradictory to 
past direction elsewhere (e.g. to how we do things with plasma-desktop) but it 
probably makes a lot more sense for the media player to show video in a 
separate window that is positioned without window borders.

that will allow video to be played using xvideo or whatever which is going to 
be a hell of a lot faster in these cases than pushing it through the 
QGrahicsScene.

if one wants to have overlays on top of the video, then i'd suggest putting 
the video window _behind_ the Plasma::View window and paint the background of 
the Plasma::View transparent. this means requiring compositing, but that's ok 
in this case afaic.

(this, btw, is exactly what some of the other linux based media centers do)

anyone else have thoughts?

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