[MPlayer-cygwin] usage of -wid on windows

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:28, Nick wrote:
> > The error where it fails is
> > <vo_directx><FATAL ERROR>could not set cooperativelevel for hardwarecheck
> > We pass the window handle to the function that sets the cooperation
> > level. Maybe it checks if the window handle is valid.
> > Are you sure you are passing the correct handle?
>
> That bit works now (passing the window handle as a hex number on the
> command line, doing directdraw initialisation stuff properly before doing
> that was my problem. I'm not a windows programmer really), so now mplayer
> seems to run (though not when the app that spwanv()s it is in debug mode in
> visual studio... hrmph), but nothing gets displayed on the spawning app's
> window.
>
> I've been trawling through directx tutorials to see if there's anything
> additional I need to be doing (if it's anything like SDL, I would have
> thought not) but obviously apps sharing a window isn't very common so
> there's not much help around. And directdraw is deprecated or something =)
>
> I'll have to write a howto at the end of this :)
>

When using overlay, you have to set the colorkey with the -colorkey option
to the colorkey of your window or use the -nocolorkey, to disable colorkeying
all together.

Regards,

Sascha