[MPlayer-dev-eng] Slave mode problems

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Saturday 30 April 2005 10:35, Daniel Malmquist wrote:
> I'm trying to write a MPlayer remote control frontend (via TCP/IP) under
> windows, but i'm having a problem getting slave mode to work. I'm using
> MPlayer version 1.0pre7-3.4.2.
>
> When i try using mplayer -slave <file> and then typing slave commands in
> the console nothing happens, when i later exit mplayer windows try to
> execute the slave commands as commands in the windows console.
>
> I've also tried executing a mplayer process from my application (mplayer
> -slave <file>) and connected an input stream to the process. But when i
> send slave commands through the stream nothing happens here either. I
> have no problem connecting an output stream to it and getting data
> through there so i don't think it's any problems with the streams.
>

Search the mplayer-cygwin list archives, there is an ongoing thread
about slave mode on windows right now.

Sascha