[MPlayer-users] Use of -slave option in latest CVS

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Tom Bednarchuk,

on Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:39:50 -0500 you wrote:

> Is it required to set the HAVE_NEW_INPUT flag to use the -slave mode ? I tried it
> earlier but when I was testing it grabbed all my mouse clicks and threw them away as
> there was no input.conf file to map them to.
It's not requiered. But will have many more command. As soon as command are added
they are avaible, for every input methode (key, lirc and slave mode).
Also I don't really understand what you mean by "grabbed all my mouse clicks and 
threw them away". Just that you couldn't use your mouse in mplayer, or something else ?
 
> Also, is anyone working on expanding the commands that you can pass to MPlayer ? 
> I'd love to see the play command with an optional filename or playlist specifier.
> Shouldn't be TOO hard should it ?
No one is working only on adding new commands :) . New commands come when it's
needed. Loading a file (in general) shouldn't be a problem. The only thing is that playlist
are handeled in a differrent way, that normal file. So with the current code, it can be done
but we need one command for files and one for playlists. I think we should put some effort
to get rid of -playlist and make playlists transparent for the user.

> Lastly, if in working with the latest CVS, I find a bug, does the dev team want it reported 
> or do they want people to wait until closer to a release ?
You are always welcome to report bugs, as soon as you find one. If you send us good
bugreport, it's always useful.
	Albeu