[MPlayer-users] X11 Issue with fork and execve of mplayer

[Vijay Anand]

Vijay Anand wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:15:43PM +0530, Vijay Anand wrote:
>>  
>>> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 03:14:04PM +0530, Vijay Anand wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Can anyone please let me know the solution for the above issue?
>>>>>         
>>>> I'd suggest to try starting an xterm (or something even simpler)
>>>> instead of MPlayer first, should be easier to debug.
>>>>       
>>> Now I am able to execve a mplayer process but without the widget
>>> option (-wid) in its own window. But with the -wid option it does'nt
>>> work.
>>> I have added a gtksocket to the window and then execve the mplayer
>>> process with the window id of the socket for the -wid option but
>>> still mplayer gets started and could see its playing logs but the
>>> video window does'nt show up. I looked up the gnome-mplayer code
>>> which looks fairly similar approach but could not figure out what I
>>> am doing wrong.
>>>     
>>
>> What made you think MPlayer would want the Window ID of a gtksocket?
>> gtksocket seems to be a hack that can only and exclusively be used
>> by GTK applications, MPlayer wants a proper X Window ID and it will draw
>> into exactly that window. If you give it and ID of something invisible
>> like a GtkSocket you obviously won't be able to see anything.
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> For the same reason as mentioned (which I realized after not having a 
> showable widget in the code) I used a fixed layout container and have 
> added the gtksocket to the container and the fixed layout is added to 
> the top level window and the widgets of the window are then shown. But 
> even then it does'nt work.
> The usage of gtksocket which seems to be a hack according to you is 
> the method followed in gnome-mplayer code.
> Are you suggesting to use an EventBox or Drawing Area widget and 
> provide its window ID to mplayer and drop the gtksocket approach?
Döffinger, Can you reply for question?