My target OS is Windows.
On CPAN, windows is called Win32 :D and what you'd do is grab Win32::API and then head on to MSDN and do some reading, so that you can write something similar to Win32::GUI::AxWindow or Wx::ActiveX::WMPlayer or ....

http://perltk.org => http://www.perltk.org/ptknews/recall_me.cgi?Search=video => Re: Embedding media players in Tk ?

Take a look at Win32::MultiMedia (it's on ppm for both ActivePerl 5.6 and 5.8)

It uses the MCI interface to play any kind of audio/video using MediaPlayer. You can embed the video in any Tk frame using the id of the frame: 

use strict; 
use Tk; 
use Win32::MultiMedia::Mci; 

my $file = shift || 'test.mpg'; 

my $video_frame = $mw->Frame( 
-width => 352, 
-height => 240, 
-background => 'black' 
)->pack(-expand => 1); 

my $mci = Win32::MultiMedia::Mci->open($file, 
shareable => 1, 
style => 'child', 
parent => hex($frame->id) 
); 

$mci->play('');

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Hope this helps, Thomas
update: MCI is as easy as Win32::MCI::Basic (just look at Win32::MCI::CD).

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I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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In reply to Re: Playing video with perl / perltk by PodMaster
in thread Playing video with perl / perltk by TROGDOR

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