[MPlayer-users] Is it possible to embed mplayer in another application?

[Deepak Shrestha]

Tuvok wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an application that displays various media, and video is one
> of them. I wanted to do the video playing with gstreamer, but after
> comparing CPU usage (especially with video resizing on) with mplayer I'm
> no longer sure if that's a good idea.
>
> Mplayer is a lot faster, so I'm wondering, wheather it would be possible
> to use mplayer as my video playing engine.
>
> Two options come to mind:
>
> a) calling external mplayer and telling it to which window draw the
> video
> b) including the source and more directly using mplayer functions
>
> Would that be possible?
> Does the mplayer have some kind of interface for embedding it?
> Where to start?
>
>   
Embedding in Java have been discussed sometime ago in 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cygwin/2005-September/002287.html

I am also thinking similar thing but haven't tried it yet.