[MPlayer-users] mplayer -slave... (how to) disable, keyboard input?

[Lee Jackson]

Lee Jackson wrote:

> > "The -slave option switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend
> > for other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read
> > commands separated by a newline (\n) from stdin." - slave.txt
> > 
> > I'm probably misunderstanding what was intended here because the behavior I'm seeing in MPlayer doesn't match this description. 
> > 
> > Basically, I want to disable keyboard commands when the mplayer video window has focus so that a press of "q", for example, doesn't quit the application. However if I run :
> > 
> > mplayer -slave -quiet egvideo.avi 
> > 
> > a press of "q" will still quit if the window has focus (I can also do "q<return>" from the launching console window). I've tried this with the -noconsolecontrols option to no avail.
> > 
> > So am I misunderstanding the meaning of the above or is there something wrong here? (MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.3 by the way)
> > 
> > tia
> > 
> > Lee
>   
>
> Add "-noconsolecontrols" to your commandline

> Kevin

Seems I switched to non-digest email too late so only had a digest with this response in. My apology's in advance for the out of thread response.

I have already tried -noconsolecontrols (as a commandline option) as detailed above. Does your response mean that my interpretation of what *should* be happening is at least correct?