Re: why cant i see wmplayer video through overlays

I've noticed this behavior with screen captures. A screen capture will often
have a black rectangle where a video is playing.

If I had to guess, video probably requires a more direct method of
displaying than do the other components (e.g., forms, icons, etc.). Thus, it
might be drawing directly to the screen, whereas screen captures and
transparency generators might write and then read some intermediate buffer
(i.e., single and/or double buffering) where the stuff drawn to screen is
placed, except the video isn't there due to the direct nature I described
above.

To restate, this is only a guess,. I have no idea if I'm correct... : )

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"ve" <ve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:39620CB9-A807-4491-94FF-8C323D994198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I have an application window with opacity 25%. I can see through all
> background application windows. But when i set it over the Windows media
> player playing a video, the part of the wmplayer goes blank. May i know
> the
> technical reason behind this???
>
> vinod


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