playing videos in Tk

schweini has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way to play a .avi file inside a Tk application?
If at all possible, it should be able to run under win32 and linux, but if that's simply impossible, that's okay, too.

thanks,

M.

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Re: playing videos in Tk by choocroot (Friar) on Sep 16, 2002 at 08:12 UTC
On Linux, I guess you could create a Tk window, get the window id, then use mplayer with the `-wid <window id>` option to tell mplayer to display the video in your window. But for Windows, I have no clue. Perhaps there is similar mechanisms to specify the ouput window for the WindowsMediaPlayer ? Just my 0.02 € ...	[reply]