[MPlayer-users] -slave and perl

[Michael Halcrow]

I'm hacking the dvd2divxscript.pl script. I want to sample a few random
sections of the video with -vop cropdetect, and then choose the most
frequently displayed value as the crop value (yeah, it's an ugly hack,
but it works most of the time, which is my goal).

Right now, I'm using my EDL system to jump around in the video, but I
would really rather send commands via mplayer's -slave mode for this
operation. Any Perl hackers out there know how to send commands to
mplayer in slave mode from within a script?

Specifically, I'd like to do something like:

wait 5 seconds
skip forward
wait 5 seconds
skip forward
wait 5 seconds
quit

Thanks,
Mike

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