On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:15:43PM +0530, Vijay Anand wrote: > Reimar D?ffinger 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.
