Hi Anon,

Well I'm a little embarrassed that you pointed me to a post I made myself in 2009, however, I never got that working either. Instead I managed to get Wx::MediaCtrl working as it should. However, I'm still left with three major Wx::MediaCtrl problems on Linux (doesn`t happen on Windows),

1. Playback crashes at the end of the file;
2. Segfault on load of a second file;
3. I can't play a live feed;

On reflection, something I should do more of, maybe I should try fix the bugs in GStreamerMediaBackend.cpp. This would get Wx::MediaCtrl working and help to maintain wxWidgets and wxPerl.

So if anyone knows how to tie wxPerl and Gtk2 together, I'm still *really* interested. However, I shall now devote some time to GStreamerMediaBackend.cpp.

Regards

Steve

Its a two parter

Part one, obtain gstreamer-window-id, then setparent for gstreamer-window-id to your-tk-wx-window-id, Perl/Tk front-end to mplayer shows one way, another is wxWindow::GetHandle +

my $player = Win32::GuiTest::FindWindowLike...
my $SetParent = Win32::API::->new("user32","SetParent","NN","N")
$SetParent->( $player, $frame->GetHandle )
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There are equivalent api calls for linux , its probably easier in C-code

Part two is event loop interaction. You create your own MainLoop which is

while(1){
    $glib->DoOneEvent;
    $wxapp->Dispatch;
}
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POE::..LOOP.. might help with this, at least for finding the equivalent of DoOneEvent :)

Alternate loop strategy, each event loop is run in separate thread (require Wx; ...) as normal (MainLoop)

Alternate approach, start working on wxGStreamer , based on GStreamer .... fixing the problems with wxMediaCtrl is probably less work :)