[MPlayer-users] -vo xv and -wid parameter

[Corey Hickey]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>>> I'm having issues with the latest SVN code for the last couple of
>>> weeks when I use xv as the vo and the -wid parameter with a valid
>>> window. I get the error message
>>>
>>> MPlayer interrupted by signal 8 in module: decode_video
>>>
>>> If I change the vo to x11 then it works fine. This used to work in
>>> 1.0pre7 and seems to be broken in 1.0pre8 and after.
>> -wid is NOT supported for -vo xv. Please, read manual:
>> ---
>> -wid <window ID> (also see -guiwid) (X11, OpenGL and DirectX only)
>>    This tells MPlayer to attach to an existing window.  Useful to embed
>>    MPlayer in a browser (e.g. the plugger extension).
>> ---
> 
> Interesting as it has been working for YEARS... all the way back to at
> least 1.0pre5 and maybe even before then. It just recently broke.

Try tracking down the commit that caused the problem:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_regression_test.html

I don't know anything about the code in question, but if you can find 
when it changed, maybe the problem can be fixed and xv support can be 
documented.

-Corey