[MPlayer-dev-eng] new slave volume control command

[Felix Buenemann]

On Friday 16 August 2002 07:55, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 15 August 2002 16:57, you wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> > > what about separating the current mplayer GUI support to an external
> > > project? and let backend and frontend comm. via tcp/ip? IMHO thats more
> > > elegant than compiling a (stupid) GUI into a (great) cmdlinetool...
> >
> > s at tcp/ip at unix sockets@ and it makes sense. Otherwise its nonsense,
> > anyone can connect and control your mplayer (unless someone adds a
> > bloated access control layer, and even then anyone on localhost could
> > screw with it). Of course even better is just controlling thru pipes,
> > or just sticking with the current method.
>
> Well, one problem with the current method is that if your piping data into
> mplayer from stdin, you can't use the slave commands.
> A pipe or a unix socket would be really nice.

hmm, I must say I like the idea of tcp/ip for control as it's very flexible 
and adding a simple crypted auth is not that hard. besides you could default 
to only allow cons from localhost. Did I miss sth. here?

> Bye
> Alex

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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