[MPlayer-users] arbitrary file location seeks & "remote" control?

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:22:57PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > How possible would it be to do file position seeks?
> see -ss and -sb options.

Yeah, -sb will do for the GOP start, but I'd like to be able to stop 
playing after X byte using some existing (or hacked in) option.

> btw, if you want to use mplayer's stuff in your app, you should get
> mplayer.c and modify for your needs - set the start/end file position after
> opening the stream so it will play only that bytes.

Hm.  That's a possibility, but I was hoping to just do IPC to control a 
running mplayer.  (To produce something that is visually similar to using 
"-gui".)  I don't want to have to keep patching my prog whenever a 
new mplayer comes out.  :)

What I imagined was similar to the -gui option.  Maybe -pipe or something 
that would take specific line-at-a-time commands from stdin (instead of 
the regular keyboard controls).  That way, any tool could pipe/fork/exec 
to mplayer, and control it "open FILE" "seek-to..." "play" "pause", etc.  
Just an idea.  :)

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net