On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:25:04 +0200 "Slapeta, Monika" <Monika.Slapeta at kmweg.de> wrote: > Hello, > > this is quite an old issue, but Sebastian's suggestion is exactly > what I'd urgently need; I desperately searched for such a > functionality in the docu (already two years ago and now again), but > found nothing. > > Can anybody tell me how to change the text in the title bar from > "MPlayer" to some other text? Even "MPlayer 1" or "MPlayer 2" (etc.) > would do. I have several MPlayers running at same time, showing > similar movies, so they are hard to distinguish (but it is important > to distinguish them). There would be the possibility to distinguish > the MPlayer windows by giving them different positions (using the > "geometry" option), but a distinguishable window title would be much > safer and better. > > Currently, I am using the Mplayer 1.0rc2-3.3.5 on Linux. > Sorry, I am probably none of those who are able to download and patch > the sources as described previously in this thread. Also, the title > text I need is not stored within the movie - it can only be passed > from outside. in the wild, there was a patch for that: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-February/040528.html