[MPlayer-users] Scripting MPlayer try 2

[Jack Smith]

On 9/14/07, pnunn <pnunn at infoteq.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks to the help of Gullaume and Jack I've got closer to where I need to be
> with this scripting problem I'm having.
>
> I've managed to get a script running as....
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> loop=1
> while [ $loop -gt 0 ]; do
>         for X in ../Download/*.mp4
>         do
>                 ./getfix
>                 echo $X>>fixlog
>                 #mplayer -vo xll -really-quiet -noboarder -fs $X
>                 mplayer -vo x11 -really-quiet -noborder -fs echo $X
> &>/dev/null
>         done
>         #for debugging
>         echo $loop>>fixlog
>         let loop=loop+1
> done
>
> which happily plays and logs the files in the directory.  However, between
> each movie, it drops back briefly to the background screen which I can't let
> happen.
>
> So.. I started looking at slave mode.
>
> I used the command line
>
> mplayer -fs -fixed-vo -slave -idle -input file=/home/pnunn/.mplayer/pipe
>
> after creating the pipe and by sending a file to the pipe with
>
>  echo "loadfile /home/pnunn/Download/robot-chicken-gummy-bear.mp4 1"
> > /home/pnunn/.mplayer/pipe
>
> the first file plays just fine.  When it ends, the screen stays up and I
> thought I was nearly there.
>
> however, when I send another file to the pipe, it plays in a small window in
> the top corner of the screen (not full screen).. also, I need a way for the
> script to be able to determine when the playing file has finished so that it
> can log the information I need and start the next one.
>

I ran into a small screen/full screen problem myself if an older
screen doesn't go away.  If you do a ps -ef | grep mplayer do you have
two of them running?
Jack

> Any more ideas please... I really need to get this last bit sorted soon...
>
> I'll keep digging too.
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Peter.
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