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Custom On-Screen-Controller for Qt6
Background: Jellyfin Media Player is blocked from fully porting to Qt6 without additional work because specific behaviors we depend on are bugged in Qt6, namely rendering behind a transparent webview. The Qt6 branch in its current state contains a workaround that moves the video in front of the webapp and shrinks it to reveal the onscreen controller of the webapp. This kinda sorta works but has lots of problems including:
- settings menu can be partially blocked by the video
- playback info is broken
In order to make it through the Qt6 era and facilitate native Qt6 support (currently we are ported through the compat api) a custom on-screen-controller must be implemented in QML.
Task: Build a custom OSC for qt6 that works around https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-111739 this issue will also track other issues which would benefit from the OSC
a custom osc would elliminate the roadblocks for mpris https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player/issues/3
Stupid question: what's an OSC? 😄 I've looked around online but can't really find anything. I assume you mean a new overlay to put on top of the video player?
the importance of this is downplayed by the fact that building with the qt5 brew formula work well on m series macs now.
Any progress on this? I'd love to help but have very little experience with QML and libmpv.
Is there a plan of action of some kind? What should this new OSC contain, how would it be technically implemented, ...?