[MPlayer-users] Re: How force OSD display to audio?

[Tobias Diedrich]

Hakon Gunsen wrote:

> How can I make sure mplayer is launched with an OSD window, even if there's no video to a stream?
> Something like $ mplayer -force-osd
> I think this is very essential if you e.g. associates mplayer to nautilus.
> Without a window, it's impossible to fast-forward, rewind, pause, check time lapse, change volume, browse playlist etc. All you kan do is find the linux process and kill it.
> The conditions are, I'm not intending to use gmplayer and I do not want mplayer to open in a treminal window. How should I do?

Well, not pretty, but kinda works:
mplayer -rawvideo on:fps=10:sqcif -audiofile test.mp3 /dev/null

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