[MPlayer-users] Re: -slave and perl

[Mark Zealey]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:10:52AM -0600, Angel wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > 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.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 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";

Here is the problem - you can only put commands to it using this method, whereas
i would imagine that he wishes to get output from it too (ie what the crop
determines...). This is why IPC::Open2 is required. I believe it also auto
flushes the fh's automatically.


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