[MPlayer-cygwin] usage of -wid on windows

[Rune Petersen]

Joey Parrish wrote:

> I think that Visual Studio runs the app from within an environment that
> does not give it permission to use DirectX.  Can't explain why this
> might be so.  But I see the same behavior on my system if I try to
> execute MPlayer (or any other graphical app) when connected to my cygwin
> system via ssh.
> 
> In any case, -wid isn't even a concern yet.  You have no VO running.

try ShellExecute(), I've used it to start OpenGL & Direct3D games =)