titouan-loeb/videoplayer

Video Player

How to run

• After cloning the repository, open the VideoPlayer.sln file in Visual Studio and run the project in both Debug and Release configurations (make sure you are in x64), it will create the necessary folders for the next step.
• Copy the content of the folder copyTo-x64-Debug into the the folder x64\Debug.
• Copy the content of the folder copyTo-x64-Release into the the folder x64\Release.

Now you should be able to run the project in Visual Studio!

Challenge report - What happend to me during this challenge

During this project I had to face different issues.

• First of all I am not used to Visual Studio and coding on Windows, I am more used to Linux and Visual Studio Code.
• I don't know well any graphical library meant for UI in C++, but I still wanted try to use for the first time wxWidgets. After some time I found myself stuck with this library. So I started from scratch again and I used the SFML library that I know much better, but this library is meant more for game deveolpment than UI development. With this library it took me much more time to accomplish less, but I was much more confortable.

What a managed to do

On monday afternoon, I started to use the SFML library, I made the architecture and I started to develop my firsts UI components. On Tuesday I was not able to work on this challenge so I continued on wednesday morning.

What I have so far is:

• A window that you can switch from full screen to small screen.
• A progress bar that moves with time, you can select a moment on the progress bar, and when it is full, it restarts at the beginning.
• A Play/Pause button that affect the time and the growth of the progess bar.

So I didn't managed to read and play a video yet, natively you cannot read videos with the SFML library but there is a free access project made with SFML that can do it for you. I intended to use it but I didn't have to time to do it yet.

Architecture

Class diagram

You can find a class diagram of this project here.

Explanation of the architecture

In my Window class I can handle basic events, it contains an array of IScenes which is an interface for the different possible scenes. In reality this challenge requires only one scene, but I made an interface because there could be much more scenes, For instance:

• 1st scene: Showing a list of video that you can whatch.
• 2sd scene: The video player.

So this interface was made to let the possibility to add more features to this challenge. Here, my only scene is the VideoVue class.

Then I created an abstract class (AGUI) for UI components, basicaly this is a class for all the different components that I will display, each scene should have an array of AGUI. 3 classes are inheriting from the AGUI class:

• CheckBox (for the play/stop and full-screen/small-screen buttons)
• ProgressBar
• Video

I wanted to add other components such as button, image, text... But I was running out of time.

Conclusion

As expected this challenge is not finished at all but I'm intend to continue it, I will probably push other features this week-end.