[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: changing file mid-playback

[David Toso]

Hi Tobias,

Tobias Diedrich <td at sim.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

>> I am trying to figure out if it would be possible to start playing one MPEG
>> file, then at some point later during it's playback, switch to another MPEG 
>> file, without of course completely restarting mplayer. I don't know what the 
>> file will be in advance (but will play the rotating symlinks game if that is 
>> an option :-).
>[...]
>> Also, assuming that this would work, can I avoid uninit & reinit of any other
>> subsystems? (I can guarantee that movies will all be of the same encoding
>> and codec -- most likely MPEG1).
>
>The OSD-menu code can open a new file from within mplayer. And with
> -fixed-vo it works very nicely.
>I can imagine mplayer being a very nice settop-box frontend when the
>OSD-menu code gets more refined. :-)

-fixed-vo eh? I will look into that now... 
I really need to do the file change control from -slave mode (if in mplayer
at all, (see comments by Rich about fifo)), but I imagine that if the commands
are in OSD menu, and not in -slave protocol, that it shouldn't be too hard to
add them.

Thank you for the advice,
David Toso.