[MPlayer-users] BUG: "mplayer -identify" now plays

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:22:31AM +0200, gabucino at mplayerhq.hu wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > couldn't both identify and show the movie at once (might not matter
> > for local files, but consider a network stream.
> I don't quite see the logic.. afair -identify printed script-edible output,
> why would anyone need that, standard MPlayer output fits more to humans.

Consider a web interface to remotely start mplayer on a headless box
connected to tvout... It might be nice for the web interface to parse
and show you info about the file you're playing.

Rich