[MPlayer-users] Is -wid option supported on Mac OS X for any video output?

[Anton Sviridenko]

>
> Hello Anton,
>
> mplayer doesn't support embedding NSView's with slave mode simply
> because OS X doesn't allow to share a view with another process.
> mplayer embedding on OS X generally uses --vo=corevideo and the
> shared_buffer sub option, this will copy image data to some mmapped
> memory that you can read from your GUI. You are then completely
> responsible to present this data on screen (both MPlayer OSX Extended
> and MPlayerX use corevideo for presenting the final image to screen).
> It's a bit of a makeshift solution but software that's very popular
> uses it and works well enough.

Stefano, thanks for useful hints. Is there some more detailed
documentation (than man 1 mplayer) about shared memory interface with
corevideo? How should I get frame size, pixel format, etc? From
mplayer stdout?
Or some code that can be looked at? Does MPlayer OSX Extended or
MPlayerX use this way of presenting video?