SDL_gfx, YUV overlay, etc

Hi, I have problems drawing to SDL surface after I blited into it with SDL_DisplayYUVOverlay.

The purpose of the program is to display video and draw some simple shapes on top of it.

I have SDL_Overlay overlay tied to main screen  and I display it normally.
I have other screen, gui that I use like this

SDL_Surface *gui, *screen;
screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(width, height, 0, 0);
...
gui = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(0, screen->w, screen->h, 0, 0);
...

//rect is entire screen, bmp comes from ffmpeg
SDL_DisplayYUVOverlay(bmp, &rect);

//from SDL_gfx -- draw filled box
boxColor(gui, width/4, 0, 0, height/4, 0xff0000ff);
SDL_BlitSurface(gui, NULL, screen, &rect);

//update entire screen
SDL_UpdateRect(screen, 0, 0, 0, 0);

Video display works without problems. But after I blit the gui surface to screen and SDL_UpdateRects the video frame is replaced by the rectangle on black background, resulting in ugly flicker.

First I thought that default alpha of surface created by SDL_CreateRGBSurface is 1, but after adding
SDL_FillRect(gui, NULL, SDL_MapRGBA(gui->format, 0, 0, 0, 0));
nothing changed.

So, how to draw on top of video with SDL?

It appears you need to explicitly turn on alpha blending for a surface.
http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdlcreatergbsurface.html

SDL_CreateRGBSurface(SDL_SRCALPHA, s->w, s->h, depth, rmask, gmask, bmask, amask);

or

SDL_SetAlpha(gui, SDL_SRCALPHA, alphaValue);

Use the source, Luke.

>>2
Thanks,

I tried adding SDL_SRCALPHA to to gui surface (example in OP is wrong, sorry about that, the call looks like
  gui = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(SDL_SRCALPHA, screen->w, screen->h, 32,
                 rmask, gmask, bmask, amask);)


Which produced no effect. I also tried adding color key to the surface, like so
Uint8 colorkey;
colorkey = SDL_MapRGB(gui->format, 0, 0, 0);
    SDL_SetColorKey(gui, SDL_SRCCOLORKEY | SDL_SRCALPHA, colorkey);

No effect :(

GOT IT!

First, I had to create a 24bit surface with no alpha channel (amask = 0) and tie the YUV overlay to this surface (let's call it video)
Then
  blit the video frame to this video surface
  do any SDL_gfx drawing still on video surface
  blit the video surface to screen surface (the one from SDL_SetVideoMode())
  Call SDL_UpdateRect on entire screen surface.

It's blitting the entire video frame twice, so it's probably more slow than it could be, but fuck that, it's still good enough.