[MPlayer-users] embedding MPlayer into a window in MacOS

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:31:21AM +0200, Marcel Meyer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2009 schrieb cbreak:
> > On 12.06.2009, at 13:28, Marcel Meyer wrote:
> > > currently I'm using the -wid option to embed the mplayer-output into a
> > > widget of my Qt-based application. That works with Linux/X11 and with
> > > Windows. Now I'm searching for a similar mechanism for MacOS.
> >
> > Check out -vo corevideo's shared memory output. Mplayer OS X uses it.
> > You can look at the sources of it on http://mplayerosx.sttz.ch/ The
> > idea is to display the memory buffer with core video or an open gl
> > texture yourself.
> 
> thank you for pointing that out. Looks a lot more complicated than just 
> using wid. Well, seems like I have to learn basic Objective-C. I hope, I 
> can come back to you/the list after I gave up ;-)

Well, I would expect that implementing -wid might be possible, too, but
for what I know nobody ever tried (and I do not own a Mac)...