[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech slave.txt,1.25,1.26

[Diego Biurrun]

Reimar Döffinger writes:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Reimar Döffinger writes:
> > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:20:39AM +0100, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > +osd_show_text <string>
> > > > +    Show <string> on the OSD. Spaces need to be escaped with \, otherwise
> > > > +    only the first word will be shown.
> > > 
> > > I think you can just put the whole string in "", or am I wrong here?
> > 
> > No, that's not enough, try it, you have to write "Hello\ world!"
> 
> Oh, you probably used a fifo and echo. In that case your shell strips the
> "", so they don't reach MPlayer. But that is not MPlayers fault. I tried
> with mplayer -slave file.avi and then entering the command directly into
> MPlayer.

Aah, OK, that explains it..  And yes, I was using echo and a FIFO.

Diego