[MPlayer-dev-eng] embedding mplayer into a gtk widget

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:28:41PM +0100, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:00:19PM +0100, Stéphane Konstantaropoulos wrote:
> > Le ven 13/12/2002 ? 03:53, D Richard Felker III a écrit :
> > > Why not just make the widget run an external mplayer process with the
> > > -wid option to put mplayer in its window?
> > > 
> > > Rich
> > 
> > No, I am actually doing a whole fork of mplayer, in order to have a real
> > gnome application at the end, i then need to rewrite the main.
> 
> It's a somewhat dumb idea ... At last, if you don't want to maintain
> a WHOLE fork, it will be a hard process. I mean: Arpi and other developers
> implement demuxer for some new format or anything which may modify MPlayer's
> source tree deeper, then you should port these features from MPlayer to
> your fork otherwise your port will be outdated. Instead you should think
> about integration. So, you can write a -vo or something for putting output
> into a Gtk Widget. Then you may want to send patches, with some optional
> (eg: configure option) Makefile modification to be able to compile MPlayer
> as a shared library, and give options with function calls instead of command
> line switches. Ok it was just a stupid example, but my point is that a fork
> is not a good idea in general (of course there're expections).

There's no need for a special vo for widget use, and in fact it's a
bad idea since that would prevent use of different vo's like xmga, xv,
x11, etc. Instead just use -wid. Someone reported it's broken, but if
that's the case, -wid should be fixed.

Rich