Daniel Nilsson <pov### [at] daniel-nilssoncom> wrote:

> The reason for the blank screenshot is that the media player is using
> hardware accelerated playback using a feature called overlays. It's like
> the blue or green screen they use when making special effects in movies
> for example. The window of the media player is in fact not black but
> very very dark red (IIRC), your graphics card is then replacing that
> color with the hardware accelerated video just before it sends it to the
> monitor. Only one program at a time can use this feature so if you start
> multiple players only the first will use it, the other will fall back to
> less hardware accelerating. The difference in darkness is probably due
> to software vs. hardware decoding. There is an option in media player to
> shot off acceleration allowing you to take sceenshots. I found all this
> out years ago when I tried to capture screenshots of a video.
>
> --
> Daniel Nilsson

Ah the technical version. I figured it was something like that, mostly vid card
interface with my software, I was mainly thinking. Annoying, but thanks, you
pointed out the fix.

originally got these polyhedra from george hart, everything still seems to be
there. For polyhedra : Google : VRML Polyhedra

 rec: georgehart or orchidpalms

roll slowing and matrix control for an out of control buckky, some bounce design
and wallah: (still have not had to write matrix between frames, not yet)

(center poly has 120 points not 60, but dont tell anyone, they wont even notice)
Bucky didnt try to split this time, but I removed its traction programming just
in case. hmm, now what to do with it ... guess I just delete it ...

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