[MPlayer-users] mplayer in root window?

[Shane Spencer]

I am wishing to do the same thing.. and I have failed at hacking this into
the Xv or SDL drivers..   I have recently hacked a similar feature with
Cygwin X11 and Drempels together..

http://vash.umgllc.com/drempx11-after.png <big>

and if anybody knwos what dremples is.. it is an animated texture morphing
program..

well Iwant to do somethign similar with MPlayer as the backbone.  Brent had
a great idea with the Electric sheep stuff.. since you could get that
working in a matter of seconds.

the rxvt trick in the image above was by checkerboarding any color.. plus
the overlay color together to make a darn cool effect..

Mplayer gods.. please hear us peons!  add -root to mplayer and make close to
uh.. hundreds of people wanna scream your name!

Shane Spencer

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:15:57PM -0800, Brent Kearney wrote:
> Hi, I love mplayer!  
> 
> A feature request: -root option to play in the root window.  If
> mplayer had this option, it could be used is an X-Screensaver hack.
> Specifically, it would be awesome in conjunction with the
> <a href="http://www.electricsheep.org"> Electric Sheep </a> fractal
> generating screensaver.
> 
> According to the xscreensaver man page, 
> 
> "To  use  a  program as a screensaver, two things are required: that that 
> program draw on the root window (or be able to be configured to draw  on
> the root window); and that that program understand ``virtual root'' 
> windows, as used by virtual window managers such as tvtwm(1).   
> (Generally, this is accomplished by just including the "vroot.h" header
> file in the program's source.)".
> 
> I'm sure its a _little_ more involved in just including the vroot.h
> header file, but perhaps its not too tough to pull off.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brent
> 
>