auto-hiding of the control bar in fullscreen affects video

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. play movie in full screen (with enabled control bar)
2. wait until it hides (video screen resizes)
3. move mouse (again video screen resizes)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
if i lay back and watch a movie and just touch my mouse a little, the 
control bar fades in and the video position changes with it, and if it 
hides again, the video "jumps" again -- so the hiding-animation of the 
control bar directly affects the video position, i guess by limiting the 
available screen size for the video, and that is a rather annoying effect!

the windows media player has (or had) a similar behaviour, which was also 
pretty ugly, there the video size changed immediately after the controls 
hid.

i would expect the same behaviour as in totem: the control bar is on top 
of the video layer and not sharing the same layer (at least it seems that 
way).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest stable version as of today

Original issue reported on code.google.com by boennh...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2009 at 10:14

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2009 at 1:50

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this is NOT a duplicate of #297!

i don't get any "grey square" or anything similar, it's just that the video 
changes 
it position and thereby irritates a lot...

maybe the solution to my problem is the solution to #297 too, but the symptoms 
are 
different -- the problem is that the control bar and the video area share the 
same 
space, but the control bar should rather be put on top of the video (and hiding 
part 
of it if necessary)...

Original comment by boennh...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2009 at 11:21

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Due to the way mplayer draws to the screen we are limited by what can be done. I
can't draw the control bar on top of the video.

If you want to use a tool that truly places the control bar on top of the 
video, you
might try my other application 'fosfor', but it is just now reaching the 0.1 
phase
and it requires hardware accelerated 3d and components from git.

http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/search/label/fosfor

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2009 at 1:55

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I thought I could create a new window and float the control bar above the 
fullscreen
window, but GTK does not seem to allow this when the window we are trying to 
float
above is fullscreened.

Since mplayer alters the video to accommodate the window it is being drawn to, I
don't have any control of this aspect of mplayer.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2009 at 3:36

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