Helix and RealPlayer do fullscreen playback, but nobody tested it with the 
new fullscreen interface on HEAD; feel free to look at the implementation 
(supposedly, it would still work.)


-- 
Daniel Yek


At 07:39 AM 1/17/2007, Eric Hyche wrote:

>I originally added the code in clientapps/simpleplayer/main.cpp
>to respond to fs+ and fs- during runtime in splay. However,
>I added it just so that we could test this in the future.
>There's no implied promise by the presence of that code that
>full-screen works in splay.
>
>Usually top-level clients, being the site supplier, do something
>more sophisticated when they go to full-screen. You may want
>to check to see if the RealPlayer for Linux handles full-screen
>and if so, look at the code in the "player" project to
>see how they do it. Alternatively, you could send email to
>player-dev at lists.helixcommunity.org and ask there.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Eric
>
>=============================================
>Eric Hyche (ehyche at real.com)
>Technical Lead
>RealNetworks, Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: helix-client-dev-bounces at helixcommunity.org
> > [mailto:helix-client-dev-bounces at helixcommunity.org] On
> > Behalf Of Tom Kirkpatrick
> > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:12 PM
> > To: helix-client-dev at helixcommunity.org
> > Subject: [Helix-client-dev] Fullscreen splay - randomly
> > works,just as randomly segfaults.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > just trying to get my nice new splay build to go into
> > fullscreen mode but am not having much luck. It starts off
> > quarter screen fine. Then I type "fs+" and hit enter. Next,
> > one of three things happens:
> >
> > 1) nothing!
> >
> > 2) it flashes fullscreen for a split second and then returns
> > back to quarter screen. If I then try it a few more times, I
> > may get lucky and it will stay in fullscreen mode until the
> > stream ends, or, I may get unlucky and the thing segfaults instead.
> >
> > 3) it goes fullscreen as expected
> >
> > So, any ideas why the random behavior?
> >
> > Oh, on a side note - It would be nice if there was a little
> > blurb about fullscreen mode in the command list. I only found
> > it by reading the code through... Or, is this because it is
> > known to be unstable?
> >
> > --------------------------
> > SystemID:  linux-2.2-libc6-i586
> > Branch         helix
> > Target:         splay
> > Profile:         helix-client-all-defines
> > ---------------------------
> >