[MPlayer-users] Two intances of video like a mirror

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 06/04/2009 10:23 AM, Krzysztof Duchnowski wrote:
> Jairo Sanches pisze:
>> Cool, It's working. One doubt: I'm developer and I'm trying to
>> construct a player. I was using slave mode to control the mplayer.
>> But, your tip is using gnome-mplayer (gui) and not pure mplayer (by
>> slave mode or command line). The question is, is there a way to work
>> with gnome-mplayer (just to play the two instances), and still
>> working with slave mode commands?
> 
> You need some window to embed "gnome-mplayer" in it, check its ID by
> "xwininfo", run "gnome-mplayer" with this window ID and then control it
> by DBUS - example:
> xwininfo gave me "0x4804d5b" as 1st additional "gnome-termianl" window
> ID and "0x4805bd2" as 2nd
> 

Just a note that the windowid is optional if you don't want to embed it.


> #:~$ gnome-mplayer --window=0x4804d5b --controlid=908 --width=320
> --height=240 &
> #:~$ gnome-mplayer --window=0x4805bd2 --controlid=909 --width=320
> --height=240 &
> #:~$ dbus-send --type=signal /control/909 com.gnome.mplayer.Volume double:0
> #:~$ dbus-send --type=signal / com.gnome.mplayer.Open
> string:"/home/dk75/Film/[J4V] YUI - CHE.R.R.Y.avi"
> 

The control ids can be the same or unique. I just fixed a bug in SVN
where --volume=0 on the commandline didn't work, it should work fine now.


> result:
> http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/12/11/497871/misc/ubuntu/mplayer/gnome-mplayer-dbus.png
> 
> 
> You could easily take out controls by:
> dbus-send --type=signal /control/908 com.gnome.mplayer.SetShowControls
> boolean:false
> dbus-send --type=signal /control/909 com.gnome.mplayer.SetShowControls
> boolean:false
> 

You can avoid the SetShowControls command with, --showcontrols=0 on the
gnome-mplayer command line.

> Thought, I don't know how to possition embeded gnome-mplayer window
> inside the host window.
> 

You can't, although I can add that if needed.

Kevin

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