[MPlayer-users] Re: New Mplayer Release???

[Konstantinos Karydas]

Your information is very helpful. Thank you. Could you please also send some
small examples:
a) of the input file structure (does this look like the .lircrc with
'begin','end' and 'config', i.e. just like inside the LIRC documentation?)
b) of the -input file option in the terminal command line (simply how do you
type this in the command line?)
c) of the -slave option together with a test program (the test program
structure?)
(I think it is of the form: test_program | mplayer -slave somefile.mpg. But
what should be the structure of this test_program?)
d) of the -use-stdin option to prevent the mplayer from reading key commands
as you suggested.


Thank you very very much, best regards,
Kostas


-----Original Message-----
From: mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu
[mailto:mplayer-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu]On Behalf Of Alban Bedel
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:38 PM
To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
Subject: [MPlayer-users] Re: New Mplayer Release???


[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
Hi Konstantinos Karydas,

on Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:58:58 +0300 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] 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.
MPlayer have to kind of inputs, key codes and commands. Key codes are
read from the terminal and/or the vo driver. Most commands are described
in the docs. They are simple strings separeted by new lines (\n) like
seek 60
pause

By default mplayer read keycodes from stdin, if you give -slave
it will instead read commands. With -use-stdin you can prevent
mplayer from reading key events from stdin (this option has no
effect if -slave is used).
Now the -input file option allow to open a file and read commands
from it. I originaly made this to control mplayer when reading
audio only file from stdin. So i can do 'echo quit > ~/mpcmd'
where ~/mpcmd is a named pipe and have mplayer quit.
	Albeu


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