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

[Sycotic Smith]

Have you tried using slave-mode?  Personally I haven't, but this sounds like what you're trying to do.
Hint: searchTFM for 'slave'

/S. Smith
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephan Kuhagen <stk at tzi.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:00:58 +0200 (MEST)
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: [MPlayer-users] Overlay-Video with -wid?

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello
> 
> I' trying to get a video played in a non-toplevel-widget of another
> application. I have the XWindow-ID of that widget, but mplayer seems
> to play only in antoher window, when it is a toplevel-window, not a
> widget inside another window. Is it possible to do this with mplayer?
> I tried to use -vo xover, also. But it seems, that I'm too stupid to
> use this feature... 
> 
> Example:
> 
> mplayer -wid 0x50000ee movie.avi
> 
> says:
> 
> X11 error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> [...]
> X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x50000ee
>   Serial number of failed request:  40
>   Current serial number in output stream:  43
> 
> 
> mplayer -wid 0x50000ee -xover:xv movie.avi
> 
> says:
> 
> VO XOverlay: xv doesn't support XOverlay
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
> 
> 
> This happens with all driver, I tried to give xover as subdriver. 
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks
> Stephan Kuhagen
> 
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