Is there a way to use a video surface directly in ...

# compose-desktop

[Aykut Yilmaz]

Is there a way to use a video surface directly in Compose Desktop? The only example I could find is the experimental video player in the Compose Multiplatform repository, which uses a SwingPanel. AFAIK, this method doesn't allow drawing any Compose components over it, which makes it impossible to build custom video controls with Compose.

[ephemient]

if you create your own window and place a SwingPanel and ComposePanel in it, you should be able to layer them

[ephemient]

unfortunately I don't think that will be a good experience either, as there's no way to avoid the software copy of the video copies through Swing

[Aykut Yilmaz]

Is there no other way other than to use SwingPanel?

[Jimmy Nelle]

Don't write it in Flutter

[zt]

I've been slowly working on a multiplatform media library that will avoid SwingPanel on desktop. It's using libmpv native API. This is new territory for me, so I have no idea when or if I will finish on my own

[Aykut Yilmaz]

That sounds great! Do you already have a Github repo that I could check out?

[Zoff]

yes. do you have a github repo? also interested in that

[zt]

I haven't created the repository yet but when I do it'll be at
https://github.com/zt64/compose-media

[zt]

android platform will use media3

[drew]

You can use the VLCJ based VideoPlayer example without a SwingPanel, see https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/pull/3336

[zt]

I'm trying to avoid vlc and bitmap

[zt]

I've been working on a multiplatform library wrapping mpv
right now I'm doing the core using JNI and everything is going well. development has been slow but I'm making progress
https://github.com/zt64/mpv-kt
I'm also starting work on an ffmpeg KMP wrapper