play VLC in my own X Window

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play VLC in my own X Window

Postby navneet » 10 May 2006 11:23

Hi ,

Is there any way to specify my own X Window ID into which VLC should play. I intend to write an application that uses the VLC player but I would like it play into an alternative X Window that I create instead of its own.

What is the best way to do this? Are there any examples anybody may know of?

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Re: play VLC in my own X Window

Postby redDev » 23 Apr 2009 11:05

Hello,

I'd like to do that too.
If we were using Win32 the answer would be FindWindow and then SetParent...

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Re: play VLC in my own X Window

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 25 Apr 2009 11:47

It would be easy to implement, but it's not currently possible from the command line (only through the C API).
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Re: play VLC in my own X Window

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 25 Apr 2009 16:03

VLC 1.0 will support this with the --drawable-xid command line parameter, assuming a X11 video output plugin is selected.
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