[MPlayer-users] Gmplayer doesn't use the gui

[dooblem]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
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>>Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday, 21 April 2004 at 21:15, dooblem wrote:
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>>>>Hi everybody !
>>>>i'm running with MPlayer v1.0pre3try2
>>>>I've a little problem with gmplayer... when I launch :
>>>>$ gmplayer
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>>>>no problem, the gui starts, but when I open a film with the gui,
>>>>the film starts decoding, but in another window, as if it was
>>>>launched by the mplayer command from the console.
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>>>If I understand you correctly, this is how it's supposed to work. How
>>>would you have it otherwise?
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>>At a guess, he expects it to open in the GUI window itself - that being
>>the way most Windows players do it (in fact I remember having used only
>>one which didn't, the then-latest(-free) QuickTime Player). Never having
>>tried or otherwise seen the MPlayer GUI, I'd have expected much the same
>>myself; I can imagine why it wouldn't be done that way, but the
>>assumption doesn't seem unreasonable.
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>Because that's not the way libvo works. In fact with some vo's it's
>impossible to use the same window.
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>Rich
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ok, thanks to rich... I was using the sdl video output... with the xv vo 
it works fine..
thanks guys
Marc