[MPlayer-users] How to control Mplayer from within another application?

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 08:20 -0300, Carlos Lorenz wrote:
> I would like to write this
> app that would have some
> text (read from a database)
> written on top of mplayer's
> video window.

The simple way is to use the osd_show_text slave command.

The more flexible way is to use the bmovl filter.

The most flexible and fastest way is to use bmovl2 filter, which isn't
part of MPlayer (yet), but can be found at http://sault.org/mebox/

Cheers,
Jason.
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