[MPlayer-users] slave mode

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 16:09, Joris Van Puyenbroeck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using a simple bash script to interrupt (pause) video play at fixed
> intervals (10 seconds), and wait for random key input (read) to continue
> (second pause).
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> (while true; do echo pause; read; echo pause; sleep 10; done) | mplayer
> -slave -osdlevel 2 test.wmv
> 
> But after the first pause, video play continues no matter what.
> What am I doing wrong here?
> I read the documentation on slave mode protocol thoroughly, but I can't
> figure out my mistake.
> 
> My version of MPlayer is dev-CVS--3.3.2 (fc-1, apt-get)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Broken? There should be a date and hour of CVS snapshot from which you built
this. What apt repository did you get this from?

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