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

[Sam Liddicott]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:15:46PM +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
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>>Preferably I would like to see some type of configuration interface
>>which could get and set data using the following sources:
>>1. Config file 
>>2. External program 
>>3. OSD
>>4. GUI
>>5. Network socket ?
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>
>Directly listening to a network socket is almost surely insecure.
>Instead you should perhaps open a unix socket in .mplayer; then the
>user can use an external program to transport data to it over ssh or
>something. For X-based vo's, you could also provide some method of
>controlling plugins through the X server, so that X clients on a
>remote box could control mplayer.
>
Not forgetting there may be more than one instance of mplayer running, 
so the unix socket name must be specifiable at both ends.

Sam