[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allow window caption to be set for ffplay

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:35:10AM +0100, Robert Kr?ger wrote:
>> 
>> this patch adds an option to set the window caption. Provided this
>> is deemed useful, one could argue if a reasonable default for this
>> would be the input filename and not "FFplay".
>
> a default of the filename + length in hh:mm as well as % of current position
> seems even better

Agreed.  At least the filename, maybe not the dynamic information.

> btw, isnt there some standard way to set the caption of a program without
> having to modify the program?

xterm uses -title, but not all the usual X tools support this.  Either
way, title is the usual term for this, not caption.

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