[MPlayer-users] Feature request: remote-control mode

[pl]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:30:24AM +0100, Kilian A. Foth wrote:
[...]
> OK, I'll try my hand at it over the weekend and send a patch for
> discussion. I'm thinking of something very simple at first, just
> printing   
> 
>     @F 5 65480 0.13 1710.50  /* (Format borrowed from mpg123) */
> 
> and reading commands such as `stop' and `skip -5'.

I don't know much about that so my _naive_ point is:
 Can't there be a common remote control protocol so we can remove
 weird controls command from mplayer and just let generic hooks in
 mplayer.c ?

 This way we could have frontends for termcap, lirc, readline, *emacs,
 blah, ... MPlayer remaining the backend player - still with a
 simple keyboard support.

> Should I create a patch against the released 0.50, or the latest CVS
> version? And should I send code to mplayer-users or mplayer-dev?
Please check DOCS/tech/* and especially patches.txt

I guess this discussion should move to -dev-eng as it's about to become technical.
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Best regards,
  pl