[MPlayer-users] Movie title in title bar

[Paul TT]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:25:04 +0200
"Slapeta, Monika" <Monika.Slapeta at kmweg.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> this is quite an old issue, but Sebastian's suggestion is exactly
> what I'd urgently need; I desperately searched for such a
> functionality in the docu (already two years ago and now again), but
> found nothing.
> 
> Can anybody tell me how to change the text in the title bar from
> "MPlayer" to some other text? Even "MPlayer 1" or "MPlayer 2"  (etc.)
> would do. I have several MPlayers running at same time, showing
> similar movies, so they are hard to distinguish (but it is important
> to distinguish them). There would be the possibility to distinguish
> the MPlayer windows by giving them different positions (using the
> "geometry" option), but a distinguishable window title would be much
> safer and better.
> 
> Currently, I am using the Mplayer 1.0rc2-3.3.5 on Linux.
> Sorry, I am probably none of those who are able to download and patch
> the sources as described previously in this thread. Also, the title
> text I need is not stored within the movie - it can only be passed
> from outside.

in the wild, there was a patch for that:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-February/040528.html