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.

if you create your own window and place a

SwingPanel

and

ComposePanel

in it, you should be able to layer them

Is there no other way other than to use SwingPanel?

Don't write it in Flutter

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

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

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

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

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

I'm trying to avoid vlc and bitmap