[MPlayer-users] Multiple Viewing Windows on Different Monitors

[J. Adam Craig]

> gnome-mplayer, a gui for mplayer, has a dbus interface that allows you
> to control all running instances, groups or single instances based on
> the specified control id.
> 
> that can all be done via shell scripting using dbus-send.
> 
> Something like this
> To send command to ALL running gnome-mplayers (multihead applications)
> dbus-send  --type=signal / com.gnome.mplayer.Play
> string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'
> 
> 
> When windowid is not specified
> dbus-send  --type=signal /pid/[pid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
> string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'
> 
> 
> When windowid is specified
> dbus-send  --type=signal /window/[windowid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
> string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'
> 
> When controlid is specified
> dbus-send  --type=signal /control/[controlid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
> string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'

Okay, Kevin, you just lost me.  I'm not familiar with how these commands would be called as a program (I've never built a program before).  Most of what I've done is just simple command line scripting.  Could you break this down for me?

Also, would gnome-mplayer run in Windows?  Would I need to configure an X11 Windows install first?

Thanks,
- Adam