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Hey guys.

I dont see anything in the api relating to video. If I wanted to render I video in a gtk application what sort of widgets would I use in order to display/hold the video? I just need a point in the general direction and then see what I can do. This has been bugging me for a whole month now and I have been trying to rftm for a while now so that I dont sound like a complete n00b. PLease someone help

There isn't anything built into the GTK+ libraries that I know of. I would recommend checking out the gxine source. I'm not sure how they do it, but I'm thinking that you might just want to find a ready-made library that does it for you.

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Yes I have spent the night reverse engineering gxine and i am managing to understand most of their code.. the only problem is that i keep on getting this error

ltmp.c:(.text+0x63b): undefined reference to `gtk_video_new'

gtk_video_new is a method in gtkvideo.c with the following declaration

GtkWidget *gtk_video_new (xine_t *xine, xine_stream_t *stream,
xine_post_out_t *out,
const gchar *video_driver_id,
int default_width, int default_height,
int button_press_mask, int button_release_mask)

if have called it with the following

GtkWidget *playwidget = NULL;

playwidget = gtk_video_new (xine, stream, xine_get_video_source (stream),
"xshm", 480, 300,
0x04 /* press: button 2 */,
0x08 /* release: button 3 */);

Sorry if i seem like a c n00b but in computer science at my university we only learned c++ so if the answer is obvious sorry..

UPDATE
sorry the answer was pretty simple and i managed to figure it out. Its been such a long time since I have compiled c on the command line on a fairly big project so I kind of forgot out some args to put in when compiling.