I’ve been using a VideoComponent object on OS X with a lot of success so far. One problem I have come into is that I can’t seem to put anything over it - adding sibling components to parent after, setting toBack, toBehind or toFront/alwaysOnTop of siblings… nothing works. I have tried overriding the pimpl in juce_mac_Video.h to force the player to the back layer but still nothing.
Any ideas on how to go about solving this? Thanks in advance for the help!
Well, yes, that’s expected - embedded OS views like the video player, openGL, web-browser etc, are heavyweight components. The normal lightweight juce components get drawn directly into the background of the parent window, so can’t be drawn over the top of them.
I see - that’s more or less what I expected. Any ideas for a workaround? I doubt wrapping it in a component would help. If there’s no way to progress I suppose using a different video player would be the solution.
Well, you could embed another juce window as a child of the parent window, so that it overlays the video view. That’s possible, but starts to get a bit hairy.
Can’t really see what you mean there. It’s nothing to do with the video player, it’s the fundamental windowing architecture. Any embedded window will have this issue.
Sorry, was falling asleep when I wrote that. I meant overriding the juce_mac_Video.h file with an NSView of my overlays with a subview. But the prior solution you provided sounds like a better bet for a first attempt. Thank you for the reply Jules.
You can also check out my ffmpeg player. That gives more low-level access like running the audio as PositionableAudioSource and displaying the video frames in software rendering in a normal juce component: