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Hi, I'm looking at ways to place a widget 'MPlayerEmbed' within a widget 'Layout' that need to see in one container, a video with mplayer and an image on the video. My problem is that when I put the widget 'MPlayerEmbed' into the widget 'Layout', the videos are not seen. I tried loading the widget 'MozEmbed' within a widget 'layout' and I do not see the browser. Here this my code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/;
use Gtk2 '-init';
use Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed;

# Create Main Window
my $window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
$window->set_border_width(0);
$window->set_decorated(0);
$window->set_position('center-always');
$window->set_title('Player');
$window->signal_connect( destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit; } );
$window->set_default_size(1024, 768);


my $vbox = Gtk2::VBox->new(0, 0);
$vbox->set_border_width(0);

# Create a Fixed Container
my $layout = Gtk2::Layout->new();
$layout->set_size (1024, 768);
$vbox->add($layout);
$window->add($vbox);
$vbox->show_all;

# Create MPLAYER Widget
my $mpe = Gtk2::Ex::MPlayerEmbed->new();
$mpe->set('args', $mpe->get('args').' -vo xv');

$layout->put($mpe, 0, 0);

$mpe->play('path_to_video.mp4');
$mpe->show_all;

$window->show_all;

main Gtk2;

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I noticed that both (MPlayerEmbed and MozEmbed) are not shown because they are reduced to the size of 1x1. I have not succeeded find a way to put inside a layout widget, a widget MozEmbed or MPlayerEmbed. I hope I understand and I can help. Thanks.
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Re: Use widget MPlayerEmbed in Layer container... I can't see the video
by zentara (Cardinal) on May 18, 2011 at 15:10 UTC
    Hi, I havn't had any luck with those modules either. Here is a manual way to run mplayer in Gtk2. This works for me, but mplayer always comes in and takes the whole window. If you can figure that out .... :-)

    Notice you need killfam for completely killing mplayer's $pid.

    Updated code for killfam, a few minutes after initial post, soory :-) 

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Glib qw/TRUE FALSE/;
use Gtk2;
use Gtk2 '-init';
use Proc::Killfam;

my $pid;  #global for killing mplayer on exit
my $window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
$window->set_title('Embed test');
$window ->signal_connect( 'destroy' => \&delete_event );
$window->set_border_width(10);
#$window->set_size_request(600,600);


my $vbox = Gtk2::VBox->new( FALSE, 6 );
$window->add($vbox);
$vbox->set_border_width(2);

my $hbox= Gtk2::HBox->new( FALSE, 6 );
$vbox->pack_end($hbox,FALSE,FALSE,0);
$hbox->set_border_width(2);


$vbox->pack_end (Gtk2::HSeparator->new, FALSE, FALSE, 0);

my $vbox1 = Gtk2::VBox->new( FALSE, 6 );
$vbox1->set_size_request(600,500);
$vbox->pack_end($vbox1,FALSE,FALSE,0);
$vbox1->set_border_width(2);

my $button = Gtk2::Button->new_from_stock('gtk-quit');
$hbox->pack_end( $button, FALSE, FALSE, 0 );
$button->signal_connect( clicked => \&delete_event );

my $button1 = Gtk2::Button->new('Mplayer');
$hbox->pack_end( $button1, FALSE, FALSE, 0 );
$button1->signal_connect( clicked => \&do_mplayer );

$window->show_all();
Gtk2->main;
#####################################
sub delete_event {
killfam 9, $pid;
Gtk2->main_quit;
return FALSE;
}  

##########################################
sub do_mplayer{

    my $gdkwindow = $window->window;
    print "gdkwin->$gdkwindow\n";    

    my $gdkwindow1 = $vbox1->window;
    print "gdkvbox->$gdkwindow1\n";    
    my $xid = $gdkwindow1->XWINDOW;

    print "xid->$xid\n";

    my $url ='';

my @options = (  '-slave','-loop 0', '-zoom',
                 "-x 600", "-y 450",
                  '-really-quiet',
                   "-wid $xid",
               );

my $mpg = 'z-men.mpg';
my $init = 'z-men.mpg';
$pid = open(MP, "| mplayer @options $init >/dev/null 2>&1 "); 
syswrite(MP, "loadfile $mpg\n");


}
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      Well, thanks for your code but not working. When loading the mplayer does nothing and not sends me an error message. I need to load Mplayer and show over it, a image. The ideal way would be using a widget "Layout" or "Fixed" but when I load a video over either of these widget but it is playing, I can not see.
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