[MPlayer-users] New Mplayer Release???

[Konstantinos Karydas]

Can you please make an example on this? The MPlayer documentation for the
slave mode is pathetic and I am not sure how this happens. How can you pipe
commands to the stdin? How can we use the -input file option combined with
the -slave option? I know my questions are very general, but I've never been
involved into this before.


Thanks, best regards,
Kostas


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of Jan Knutar
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] New Mplayer Release???


[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
On Thursday 10 July 2003 02:28, you wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hi!
>
> > I'm not the original poster, but, to me, a named pipe, or even a
> > socket, where mplayer would listen for commands would be perfect.
> > Maybe even something in the same style as XMMS and its
> > xmms_remote_* API for controlling xmms..
> >
> > (and yes, I'm aware of -slave)
>
> You can pause,start,stop with slave. Or I misunderstand?

Yes, but you have to pipe it into mplayer first. Or atleast, I thought you
had,
until I reread the man page and discovered -input file, I haven't tested it
yet, but
-slave and -input file sounds just like what I need, a fifo to pipe commands
into
mplayer, from a program that is always resident. (I'm making my own remtoe
control) :-)

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