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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Jan 2009 10:57    Post subject: Video Overlay In Fullscreen Game - Possible?
Here's the problem-

I'd like to have a movie playing in a video player while the game is in full screen.
Basically, I'd like to overlay the video onto the game - kind of like how XFire does with text.

Does a program like this exist? I've been searching all night with no luck.
Thus far I've been able to set Windows Media Player classic to Always On Top and run my game windowed , but the annoying blue border just doesn't cut it. The game needs to be fullscreen.

As soon as I fullscreen the game, the Always On Top Setting is over-ridden.

Helps me! Sad
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Jan 2009 12:45    Post subject:
Hm, the only way to do that I think is to write a prog. You need to focus the app somehow and at the same time not loose focus even if you are using the app/game behind it. There is a little application that is called Focus Genie 2.1
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But i am pretty sure it wont work but.

But why do you want to do this, are you trying to break some record in multitasking .
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Jan 2009 14:48    Post subject:
CaptainCox wrote:
Hm, the only way to do that I think is to write a prog. You need to focus the app somehow and at the same time not loose focus even if you are using the app/game behind it. There is a little application that is called Focus Genie 2.1
LINK
But i am pretty sure it wont work but.

But why do you want to do this, are you trying to break some record in multitasking .


It's more convenient actually. I mean playing defense gird for example, it's a small game, so playing that while watching a movie is great.

Though I think it would be better with a multimonitor setup. Movie on one screen and game on the other.
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Jan 2009 14:56    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:

Though I think it would be better with a multimonitor setup. Movie on one screen and game on the other.

That would be the best recommendation 100%.
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PostPosted: Sun, 18th Jan 2009 16:03    Post subject:
a video playing on top of a 3d game is not really something windows swallows easily
accelerated content like a game or video player usually assume they have exclusive access and putting two on top of eachother would probably result in various issues (or atleast severe slowdown)
if windows had a compositive window manager like compiz on linux, it would be an entirely different issue as all applications are isolated planes on a composited screen and you can do whatever you want with them, like rotate or project on 3d surfaces or whatever
i understand vista/win7 have some sort of compositing features but i don't know how isolated they are
the fact that video render layers still exist suggests nothing has changed, but i hope i'm wrong
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