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great idea
monitoring the baby cam
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2013-03-15, 15:53
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-15, 15:54 by Robotica.)
There are so many possibilites. Thats why
Secondary screen is a better name.
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2013-03-15, 15:58
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-15, 15:59 by Mettbrot.)
I personally refrain from calling everything an "App" nowadays, there are already several Requests about this on the forum. The essence for every one of these is that XBMC core has to allow multiple players to be open, that would be the correct term imho
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2013-03-15, 17:39
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-15, 17:42 by Robotica.)
You right about the app. But not just players can be used in the secondary screen... On a good day, perhaps even a browser or a notification screen..
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I don't know what the correct status for this is, but I could imagine that running an addon (that does not play any type of media) in a small overlay is just a question of skinning? But I am no expert :-P
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(2013-07-20, 08:54)chacon Wrote: For babycams you can try "doorbell" addon
http://homeawesomation.wordpress.com/201...mc-update/
MCh
Very awesome.
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as mentioned, the issue is really not the rendering. We could easily add 10 video overlays in the GUI. The real issue is the entanglement of our internal player component with everything else, which prevents it to be instantiated multiple times. And without our internal player component there won't be any HW accelerated playback, so PIP with two 1080p streams would become nearly impossible on low powered platforms. Our videoplayer is currently being refactored, along with the components interacting with it, so that PIP will be a feature in the not so distant future (I hope)