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opening mulitple different videos with mplayer and placing them in x,y coordinates?

howdy.

can you place mplayer windows on the screen anywhere?

i would like to open four movie files from command line and make them show up on screen like this
----- -----
| 1 | | 2 |
----- -----
| 3 | | 4 |
----- -----

hopefully my ascii representation makes some sense.

and i would like to be able to swap any of them without affecting the others. is this possible? or do i need to use some other software on top?

thanks,
dan

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If mplayer supports the -g or -geometry option, you can probably use that. Try this to get a feeling for it:

Code:

xeyes -g +0+0 # Puts eyes in the top left corner
xeyes -g +0-0 # Puts eyes in the bottom left corner

and so on.

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