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

[sri raman]

u have to use certain bmovl commands to put image as
overlay..
there is text document in ur mplayer documenation
folder see it
cheers
        sriraman
--- Carlos Lorenz <carlos.lorenz at bol.com.br> wrote:

> Jason,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I have tried hard but could
> not
> understand completely how to use the bmovl filter.
> 
> Maybe you or someone else at this list could help me
> a little.
> 
> I made a FIFO and cat a PNG to it like this:
> 
> $ mkfifo /tmp/myfifo
> $ cat mypng.png > /tmp/myfifo&
> 
> then I launched Mplayer to watch TV an see if the
> PNG image was on top
> of video like this:
> 
> mplayer -tv
> driver=v4l:norm=ntsc:width=320:height=240 tv://4 -vf
> bmovl=0:0:/tmp/myfifo
> 
> Well Mplayer brings the TV image but no PNG overlay
> at all.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:09:54 -0400
> Jason Tackaberry <tack at sault.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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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