[MPlayer-users] mplayer 1.0pre5

[scorproy at HotPOP.com]

Giacomo, please help me with my query on directfb.......
Thanks & regards,
scorproy
Giacomo Comes wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:07:09PM +0200, g0tcha wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>What I would like to do is play a bunch of files (jpeg, jpg, mpeg, avi) in a
>>directory called /media, I would like to do this using mplayer but the
>>problem with running the command 
>>
>>[root at testbed media]#mplayer * 
>>
>>is that it only plays the clips and not the jpegs and if I run the command
>>
>>[root at testbed media]#mplayer mf://* -fps 0.1
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>>It plays the pics but not the clips.
>>
>>I basically need to play all formats of media in the /media directory, 
>>
>>but also bare in mind that I will need to remove and add clips on weekly
>>basis, and I found if you do a command " mplayer -loop 0 * " on a directory
>>and remove any file from that directory and add a new clip, mplayer
>>obviously doesn't play the removed clip but it doesn't also play the added
>>NEW addition to the directory.
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>This is because the list of files to play is generated at the time the
>command is executed. In order to see later added files, you have to execute
>the mplayer command again.
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>>Scripting something would propably help , as the playlist option doesn't
>>allow the playing of jpegs.
>>
>>Any help scripts pointing in the right direction would be greatly
>>appreciated. :-)
>>
>>regards
>>    
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>I have not tested this but it should work:
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>mplayer *.avi *.mpeg  mf://*.jpg -fps 0.1 mf://*.jpeg -fps 0.1
>(not sure if you must repeat -fps)
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>Put the media files with the correct extentions before the mf:// command.
>This will play first the movie and then the jpegs.
>
>Scripting is also simple. Just be a little bit more specific about
>what you need and I can provide you with a simple script.
>
>Giacomo
>
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