Thanks PodMaster and Courage,
> But first you must install Tcl/Tk with said widget
I don't want to deal with a full Tcl install, so I bailed on this idea. But thanks for the suggestion, Courage.
> Take a look at Win32::MultiMedia
This worked great! I got it up and running in 5 mins. It did require some debug on the code example, though: 
use strict;
use Tk;
use Win32::MultiMedia::Mci;

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

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

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($video_frame->id)
);

$mci->play('');

MainLoop();

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There are 3 bugs in the code:
  • $mw was not defined, so I added a MainWindow-new().
  • The mci parent pointed to $frame. It needs to point to $video_frame.
  • Without the MainLoop(), the program exits immediately without playing the video.

    The above code displays a nice little test video window on my screen. This is why I love perl. :)

    Thanks again,
    TROGDOR

    Janitored by Arunbear - replaced pre tags with code tags, as per Monastery guidelines

    In reply to Re^2: Playing video with perl / perltk by TROGDOR
    in thread Playing video with perl / perltk by TROGDOR

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