Eureka... and this how you play a movie inside a stack on linux

[Warren Samples]

On 12/14/2013 06:06 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> Yes. VLC could play a movie inside a stack too, but it hangs
> LiveCode after the movie finish playing...
>
> Maybe there are some additional commands that prevents
> that LiveCode hangs after playing the movie...
>
> By the way, keyboard shortcuts works fine inside the
> movie within the stack. You could play, pause, stop,
> etc, etc, etc... :D
>
> Just remember that LiveCode will hang after running this
> shell command in the message box, so save all your work
> before trying this:
>
> 1) Create a new mainstack
>
> 2) write in the message box:
>
> put the windowid of topstack
>
> This function returns a number like: 25166356
>
> 3) write in the message box:
>
> shell("vlc -I dummy --drawable-xid 25166356 mymovie.mp4")
>
> 4) After VLC finish playing your movie, only LiveCode hangs
> and you have to force quit the IDE. In Lubuntu, I just have
> to close the main menu window and LiveCode quits...
>
> Now we need a volunteer:
>
> Who will go to the VLC forums and ask them:
> Why the program hangs after playing the movie
> using these commands?
>
> Could be that we are using the wrong options to play
> the movie within the stack window?
>
> Which are the correct options to close the movie
> after it finish playing?
>
> Noticem please that using this option in VLC Linux:
> --drawable-hwnd 25166356
> Does NOT works at all. The error produced by VLC is:
>
> vlc: unknown option or missing mandatory argument `--drawable-hwnd'
> Try `vlc --help' for more information.
>
> Have a nice weekend!
>
> Al

Embedding vlc displays the video without any of the transparency issues 
that mplayer demonstrates. The issue with LiveCode hanging does seem to 
be a result of using shell(). You should note that this means that 
LiveCode, or any app using this method, will be unresponsive so long as 
the vlc process is running. This is easy to work around, however. 
Finally, keyboard shortcuts are not working to control playback on my 
system.

Warren