Graphics over QT

[Richard Gaskin]

Kevin Brooks wrote:
> I'm writing an application that needed to display graphics over running
> Quicktime video.  I quickly discovered that the only way of doing this (that
> I could find) was to put the graphics on a substack that I opened as a
> palette. 

If you're not using QT's controller, there's another way:

Just turn on the alwaysBuffer property of the player object.  That will 
cause it to be rendered into the window's buffer rather than blitted 
onto the screen directly by QT, which allows Rev to apply its normal 
compositing to it.

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  Richard Gaskin
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