I have a Qt application (QML) that requires me to play videos. I tried the QtMultimediaKit with not much luck so I decided to switch to mplayer and have had great success. In my Qt application, I create a new process to launch mplayer and it plays the video on the framebuffer just fine. However, if I have an element underneath the video that gets updated, the element “pokes through” the video for as long as the element is updated. It basically looks like Qt and mplayer are fighting to paint the screen.
Is there a way to make mplayer take the highest z-order to prevent this from happening?
mplayer -slave -really-quiet -vo fbdev2 -fps 15 -zoom -x 800 -y 400 myVideo.mp4