How to embed mplayer in Linux with JNI

Question

Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone here knows to get a Linux based video player to draw on the awt Canvas. I am trying to play the streaming video in ASX / WMV format on Linux. And MPlayer is one such player that can play almost anything.
For windows, there are a few options to embed the native media player and I am thinking of going with jawin as it hides most of the native implementation. But I have not much idea about how to do it in Linux. Couldn't find many examples / guides either.
If someone has an idea / links and would like to share it, it'll be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Rex

Answer 1

I could advance a little more and got the JNI library to draw on the awt Canvas. But still can't get another native program like gedit to draw on the Canvas.
This is what I am doing to draw the rectangles (from Sun's example) -
gc = XCreateGC(dsi_x11->display, dsi_x11->drawable, 0, 0);
XSetBackground(dsi_x11->display, gc, 0);
for (i=0; i<36;i++)
XSetForeground(dsi_x11->display, gc, 10*i);
XFillRectangle(dsi_x11->display, dsi_x11->drawable, gc,
10*i, 5, 90, 90);
XSetForeground(dsi_x11->display, gc, 155);
XDrawImageString(dsi_x11->display, dsi_x11->drawable, gc,
100, 110, testString, strlen(testString));
But how do I pass the handle 'gc' to another program like gedit to draw on this surface instead of opening it's own window ? It'll be a great help if someone could share an idea on this.
Thanks,
Rex