[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Moving the audio plugins to libmpcodecs - design of plugin management

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:21:04AM +0200, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> > > Bleh, I hope they're also nice and functional without gui...
> >
> > I should have said OSD or GUI. Some plugins becomes a bit hard to use
> > without visual feedback like for example EQ and multi channel volume.
> 
> What I would like is the possibility for a standalone program to
> connect to mplayer and change settings like volume, EQ, do seeks, get
> status info etc., so you can control mplayer from a different display
> or computer.
> 
> Plugins should not have GUI of OSD support hardcoded in them, but
> instead export a list of parameters with name, type, range info, and
> an interface to change them on-the-fly.

Sounds nice. Also possibly some hints about how the parameters fit
together in groups, preferred way to order them, etc. so stuff like
equalizer could be made to look nice.

Rich