[MPlayer-users] re: [Mplayer-dev-eng] xmms-plugin

[Jeremy Brenner]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 15:42, Greg Maculo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On 29 Aug 2002 14:00:03 -0500
> Jeremy Brenner <jeremy at theedge.net> wrote:
> 
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >  
> > 
> > >>Hi,
> > 
> > >> has anyone tried to make an xmms-plugin of mplayer? (don't flame me!)
> > >no. nobody was so mad yet :)
> > >> since it shouldn't be that difficult, i might try this myself, if
> > >>noone has
> > >> done it yet. basically it should suffice to adapt main.c to be a
> > >>plugin and
> > >> get its input from xmms, making a libao that outputs to xmms and
> > >>removing
> > >> the non-x targets from libvo.
> > >it is not so simple, but feel you free to try it. we can't help, sorry.
> > 
> > >xmms plugins are multithreaded, event-controlled code, while mplayer
> > >isn't.
> > >changing mplayer is between very hard and impossible.
> > >(and will result to same performance and stability loss as other
> > >players has)
> > >
> > >A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> > >
> > >--
> > >mailto:arpi at thot.banki.hu
> > >http://esp-team.scene.hu
> > 
> > Ok. this is a VERY old message, but something i'd like to see.  My idea
> > is slightly different and I'd like to know if its a possibility,  I
> > would like to attempt this myself.  First off I think making mplayer the
> > plugin is way to drastic.  I would like to see an MPlayer
> > configuration/control/playlist plugin for xmms.  Possibly piping the
> > audio back through mplayer but not necesary.  I would like playlist,
> > play, pause, ff, rewind, volume functions pass through a plugin(possibly
> > via lirc (is that the correct name?) to control an already stable
> > possibly UNMODIFIED mplayer. It could fire mplayer up when necessary and
> > shut it down when needed.  Passing info back to xmms may be more of a
> > chore, I'm not for sure what type , if any support for feedback about
> > video position and whatnot mplayer has.  If my goals are too lofty then
> > I'll back down, but I would like to look into it. Let me know what
> > anybody thinks about this.
> > 
> > jeremy
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> i've thought about that feature for a while... easiest thing that i can think of is to make a wrapper program to run mplayer when needed and have that wrapper program redirect xmms's control requests to mplayer as needed...
> maybe get the play time and song/video info from stdout
> i'm not too sure about how to send the audio data to xmms for the visualization stuff, maybe make an audio out driver to redirect to xmms? -- but that leads to another problem for some sound cards --- xmms butchers the audio for me on my laptop since it's locked at 48kHz -- mplayer plays beautifully...
> 
> a wrapper wouldnt be too tough ... any thoughts?
> 
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a major issue with the audio may be sync... sending from mplayer through
xmms to the sound card could skew it bad.