How can you place a transparent picturebox over a playing video file?

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Is there an easy way to place a transparent picture box over a playing video?

At this point I would rather do it on the same form. What I am trying to do
is display the video, and place a picture box frame over the video.

It must be possible but after a day of trying I am a little stuck? Even a
link on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Posted 27-Mar-13 16:57pm

Dr David Johnson PhD

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-03-27T17:14:00

A very short answer: as GDI and DirectX (used to show video) don't live well together, this can be considered to be a too difficult problem to bother. You would need to use DirectX overlay with System.Windows.Forms. See, for example:
http://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/c/62019-c-non-hooked-external-directx-overlay.html[^],
http://gregs-blog.com/2008/02/26/managed-directx-c-graphics-tutorial-1-getting-started/[^].

What to do? My advice is: don't get there, instead, switch to WPF, which is itself based on DirectX.

Everything in WPF can be made semi-transparent, everything can be overlaid over everything, including video, without any special effort. I tested it; it's very easy.

—SA