[MPlayer-users] Overlay-Video with -wid?

[Bjoern Kahl]

Hi!

I dont think it is mplayers fault. I have successfully played a video
in an xterm-widget (text-area), and the wid used was not the toplevel-id.

Btw.: mplayerplug-in uses mplayer to show videos in netscape, mozilla and
other application, and there are clearly no toplevel-wids used.

Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 08:49 schrieb Stephan Kuhagen:
> The documentation about "-wid" is very insufficient. I
> can't find out, if the Feature is meant to be used with all types of
> windows (which should make no difference, I think) or only with
> toplevel-Windows. "-wid" works fine, as long as I give it the ID of a
> toplevel-Window. But the Window-ID of a Child-Window, for example a
> canvas or a QWidget from the Qt-Toolkit, which is, what I need,
> doesn't work.

Btw.: mplayerplug-in uses mplayer to show videos in netscape, mozilla
and other application, and there are clearly no toplevel-wids used.

> When trying with a QWidget, I first thought, its the Toolkit, that
> makes the problems, because Qt catches all XEvents and makes its own
> Updates to the Widget. But this can be switched off, however this
> makes no difference to mplayer.

It my be the QT-Toolkit, that makes the problem. I have no idea how QT 
could block other processes from writing to its widgets, but as a mater 
of fact, playing a video in a KDEs konsole- widget fails too. Sometimes 
no video shows up, sometimes it shows up, but in all cases the konsole 
is dysfunctionla after that. You have to kill -9 from some other terminal.

Bjoern

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