# Embedding an Audio player or a Video player in a ruby-gtk app **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-an-audio-player-or-a-video-player-in-a-ruby-gtk-app/214468 "2011-12-02T14:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-an-audio-player-or-a-video-player-in-a-ruby-gtk-app/214468/1 "2011-12-02T14:30:40Z")
Hi, Is there any way to include a minimal videoplayer or audioplayer in a ruby-gtk program? Perhaps with GTK3? Right now I mostly use mplayer, but I also have VLC installed. And Gstreamer and gnome-mplayer. What I am curious is the minimal code that would be required to actually embed these into a small ruby-gtk application. My goal is to create a pseudo “Desktop Environment” where all my useful ruby-gtk programs can be started and controlled from within a set of widgets. And it would be really great if I could watch videos inside. In HTML5 this should not be a big problem anymore. And I saw that with GTK3, we can embed applications into a browser, i.e. embed and run gimp into firefox. I find this all quite exciting, but I also feel too dumb to dig into this, as this seems to all be in the language C, and I suck at C. ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-an-audio-player-or-a-video-player-in-a-ruby-gtk-app/214468/2 "2011-12-02T15:44:36Z")
There is no Ruby GTK3 to play with yet, although I know they are working on it. With Gtk2, you can (theoretically) do this on Linux using mplayer. With a Gtk2 window “win” open, ask for its xwindows window id: win.window.xid Now execute mplayer and pass it the -wid parameter, passing your xid. Mplayer should embed itself for you on your window. I’m guessing since xid is defined on Gdk::Drawable that you can do this with any control, so you can embed the video in a container. -dh From: Marc H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, Date: 12/02/2011 08:31 AM Subject: [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Embedding an Audio player or a Video player in a ruby-gtk app Hi, Is there any way to include a minimal videoplayer or audioplayer in a ruby-gtk program? Perhaps with GTK3? Right now I mostly use mplayer, but I also have VLC installed. And Gstreamer and gnome-mplayer. What I am curious is the minimal code that would be required to actually embed these into a small ruby-gtk application. My goal is to create a pseudo “Desktop Environment” where all my useful ruby-gtk programs can be started and controlled from within a set of widgets. And it would be really great if I could watch videos inside. In HTML5 this should not be a big problem anymore. And I saw that with GTK3, we can embed applications into a browser, i.e. embed and run gimp into firefox. I find this all quite exciting, but I also feel too dumb to dig into this, as this seems to all be in the language C, and I suck at C. – Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). ---
**Author:** ![quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@quik77](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/quik77)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-an-audio-player-or-a-video-player-in-a-ruby-gtk-app/214468/3 "2011-12-03T21:36:17Z")
Marc H. wrote in post #1034742: > Hi, > > Is there any way to include a minimal videoplayer or audioplayer in a > ruby-gtk program? Perhaps with GTK3? see this code from green\_shoes: > it use gstreamer.