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Greetings.

I would like to use xbmc.player.play() to show a video inside a control that I've placed in Home.xml

The thing is, I do not know how to do this.
I do no know which control type to use, nor how to instruct xbmc.player the control where the video should be rendered.

This is the control.

Code:
<control type=" ??? " id="9990">

<posx>20</posx>

<posy>20</posy>

<width>600</width>

<height>400<width>

</control>

This is the section that says instructs which video to play.

Code:
link='/home/pi/vid.flv'

xbmc.Player().play(item=link)

How to instruct Player() to render the video on the control 9990?

Ops. I missed this control in the Skinning docs.

Here is how:

Code:
<control type="videowindow" id="3">

<description>My first video control</description>

<posx>80</posx>

<posy>60</posy>

<width>250</width>

<height>200</height>

<visible>true</visible>

</control>

Code:
link='/home/user/vid.flv'

xbmc.Player().play(item=link, windowed=True)

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