[MPlayer-users] question on slave mode
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Jul 2 07:02:47 CEST 2003
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0200, Stefan Lange wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Martin Grim wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've recently obtained and installed mplayer. From the looks of the
> >documentation the slave mode would allow piped input to mplayer. This
> >could help me a great deal, but unfortunately I cannot get this to work.
> >Most likely I didn't or did do/read something which I should of shouldn't
> >have...
> >
> >I made a small test program which outputs
> >
> > pause
> >
> >(with new line) to stdout every 5 seconds. This is piped into mplayer like
> >
> > test | mplayer -slave -playlist videolist.txt
> >
>
> make sure you are actually running _your_ test-program, and not
> /usr/bin/test or some function built into your shell
:))))))))))))))))))
Rich
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