[MPlayer-users] Re: -slave and perl

[Angel]

> Any Perl hackers out there know how to send commands to
> mplayer in slave mode from within a script?

Here is most of the relevant code to do that. I've copied and pasted from a 
gtk perl program I wrote for a settop type box.

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# Create file handle for playing movie
# and set it to autoflush.
local *PLAYING_MOVIE_H;                     
my $oldfh = select PLAYING_MOVIE_H;
$| = 1;
select ($oldfh);

open PLAYING_MOVIE_H, "| mplayer -aid 128 -alang en -slave -fs -dvd 1";
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To send commands to mplayer you simply print to the PLAYING_MOVIE_H file 
handle ie..

print PLAYING_MOVIE_H "seek 60 0\n";

> Specifically, I'd like to do something like:
>
> wait 5 seconds
> skip forward
> wait 5 seconds
> skip forward
> wait 5 seconds
> quit

With the code above.. this is trivial.

-Angel