Vijay Anand wrote: > Reimar D?ffinger wrote: >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> MPlayer-users mailing list >> MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu >> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >> > 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? D?ffinger, Can you reply for question?
