On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:16:11PM +0530, Vijay Anand wrote: > Reimar D?ffinger wrote: > >No idea what exactly you are talking about, but there is no -wid for > >SDL and I don't think it can be added. > >Though I also don't see why you're using SDL when you said you wanted to > >use DGA, I have no idea if -vo dga actually works with -wid, but at least > >it could in principle AFAICT. > > So what is the method for using SDL with mplayer's -wid option ie if > you have a top level gtk window and you have to display a video in a > SDL surface in one part of the winodw? What was unclear about what I wrote? There is no method to do that. Besides if any of SDL, DGA, whatever is faster than XV there is something wrong with your system and you're trying to solve the wrong question.