-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Crisler wrote: > An app that I am working on needs to render video itself so that it can > render the controls on top of the video. It is designed to control the > video itself.p[-000000 I am working with the -vo x11 option to use > shared memory, hoping to get the video images transferred via a memory > region. Since that option writes video images (XImages) to shared > memory, it seems to me that mplayer, in this case, doesn't need to (or > shouldn't) render to a window, yet it does. The source file vo_x11.c, > line 374 calls vo_x11_create_vo_window(), which creates a window > (surprise). That window is used to render video. > > Why? > > It would be useful to me to have a way to specify options so that it did > not create or use a display window (unless that capability already > exists and I missed it). I am also concerned that my app (in a separate > address space) may not be able to access that SMR since it is created > with the IPC_PRIVATE flag. In this case, it seems that the SMR should be > created to be shared, perhaps with a name? I am willing to do the work > but will need a bit of guidance since I am new to mplayer. I am not new > to programming but am somewhat new to Linux (~6 months). > > Thank you, > Chuck Crisler Chuck, Do you really need to do your own processing or do you just need the output to go to some window? If so take a look at the -wid option and then look at programs like gnome-mplayer and smplayer that put a gui around the mplayer command line tool. Kevin - -- Get my public GnuPG key from http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D0BD5D1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Remi - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmoxEsACgkQ6w2kMH0L1dEEywCcC0zZW4ZdFiY9XSSt8GV0infm l78Ani6CrM9KAMJgQwf05m9SuPXrMPjW =StPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users