[MPlayer-dev-eng] How does mplayer draw into a fullscreen window?

[Diego Biurrun]

Harold Martin writes:
> I posted this question to the users list, but I got no response.
> I've been working on getting mplayer running under xscreensaver as a
> screensaver module. I'm able to run mplayer but with sound only, no
> video appears. I've set the -rootwin option and expirimented with
> various -fstypes, but I cannot get any video drawn.
> xscreensaver's author (jwz) wrote me this:
> "Make sure mplayer is *really* drawing on the xscreensaver window, and
> isn't actually opening its own window (which will end up hidden behind
> the xscreensaver virtual-root window.)"
> "For it to work as a screen saver, the -root(win) option must draw on
> the virtual root window it gets from vroot.h.  You can't fake that out
> with -wid because the ID may be different every time it runs."

What happened when you experimented with -wid?

Diego