[MPlayer-users] advanced menu in mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 10:10:46AM +0100, Oliver Seitz wrote:
> Am 03.03.2012 23:21, schrieb Adam Sulmicki:
> >Oliver,
> >
> >Thanks for checking this out. I greatly appreciate this :)
> 
> You're welcome, I stumbled accross this while looking for something else ;-)
> 
> >
> >Still given this huge amount of key bindings, I wonder whether I would be
> >able to
> >enter an arbitrary (alphanumeric) text into the text box drawn by mplayer.
> >This is quite important requirement.
> 
> Keystrokes don't have to run through mplayer. I'm quite sure you can
> grab window focus and with this stdin in some way. But not the
> mouse: The window the mouse cursor is on is responsible for taking
> actions. This is mplayer in this case.

Embedding MPlayer with -wid (Windows and X11 only) will pass key
presses on to the embedding application.