Re: Embed movie player using mplayer - How to execute mplayer (fork?)

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> Sorry Paulo, I sent reply to one, first.
> 
> One quick gotcha is that argv contains a vector of all the command
> options.
> These are typically separated by spaces when typed on the command line.
> However, your example has the whole command as one option.
> So put the wid to a std::string, widstring, and
> 
>       argv.push_back("mplayer");
>       argv.push_back("-quiet");
>       argv.push_back("-slave");
>       argv.push_back("-idle");
>       argv.push_back("-wid");
>       argv.push_back(widstring);
>       argv.push_back("/home/test.avi");

There's actually a function doing this for you,

Glib::shell_parse_argv
(http://gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/group__ShellUtils.html#gbc52fcb14cfc7a5ba37ca821cc837818)

or you could use the Glib::spawn_command_line_sync/async functions.

> 
>
Glib::spawn_async_with_pipes(std::string("/usr/bin"),argv,Glib::SpawnFlags(0));
> 
> Personally, I'm using fork combined with execlp():

That's not very portable when concerning windows, is it?