[plt-scheme] libVLC and PLT Scheme on OSX

Thank you for the information.

I still haven't gotten it to work, but now I think it's from a lack of
understanding the libVLC side of things.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Call the canvas's `with-gl-context' method, and give it a thunk that
> uses the Mac OS X function aglGetCurrentContext() to get the current
> context. The result is an `AGLContext' and probably what you need.
>
> At Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:54:11 -0500, Christopher Bowron wrote:
>> I'm trying to do some video playback inside a PLT Scheme window on a
>> Mac with OSX.  I'm using libVLC to do the actual video playback and
>> I've been able to get it work in Windows using combination of
>> libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd on the VLC side, and get-handle on PLT
>> side to get an hwnd of a window.
>>
>> On the mac, the VLC documention says that it needs an "agl handler" in
>> the form of a uint32_t.  According to the documentation, get-handle
>> returns a WindowRef or ControlRef on osx, which doesn't work.  After
>> some reading, it looks like an agl handler might be related to OpenGL,
>> so I thought the agl handler might be something I could retrieve using
>> a gl-context%, but I don't know how i could coerce that into a 32 bit
>> integer.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas as to what I could be looking for?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S. If anyone is interested in what I am doing, I have a blog post
>> that shows code for doing the video playback under Windows:
>> http://cwbowron.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/vlc-and-plt-scheme-n1/
>>
>> --
>> Christopher W. Bowron <chris at bowron.us>
>> [ Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome will be ]
>>     - Joseph Campbell
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