[MPlayer-users] Mapping DVD drive eject and forward buttons

[Ivo]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 00:18, Gert van Biljon wrote:
> With Mplayer I seemingly cannot use these two buttons, my
> biggest need is the eject button to stop the playback of a
> DVD.
>
> Is it possible to have mplayer react to input from any of
> these two buttons? Googled quite a bit but didnt find
> anything

I don't think this is possible. When an audio CD is played, it acts almost 
like a stand-alone player. There's a DAC in the drive and the audio is sent 
directly to the soundcard. That's where that little cable between the drive 
and your soundcard (or motherboard if it's integrated) is for. The drive's 
firmware catches the button presses and acts upon it (play, next track, 
stop, eject, etc. depending on the model). I don't think software running 
on the main computer's CPU can query the status of those buttons.

--Ivo