[MPlayer-users] SIGCONT causes fast-forward effect

[The Wanderer]

Pete Nesbitt wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:31:15 +0100 Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 07.12.2008, 02:54 Uhr, schrieb Pete Nesbitt <pete at linux1.ca>:

>>> As a wild guess I would say that mplayer is not aware it is
>>> paused at the process level (related to being in a bg'd
>>> while-loop??), so when it is resumed it tries to catch up to
>>> where the system clock or some timer says it should be. I'm
>>> thinking I need to tell it not to sync to the real time, but just
>>> carry on.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any ideas what causes this and how I can prevent
>>> it?
>> 
>> Hi Pete,
>> 
>> have you tried slave mode to tell mplayer nicely to pause playing
>> instead of pulling the emergency brake and releasing it again?
> 
> Hi Kiste,
> I tried adding it into the mplayer script line, but no change. My 
> problem is that mplayer is not running in a shell where I can send it
> signals or commands/keystrokes.

Did you try redirecting stdin from a FIFO (instead of from /dev/null),
and then writing slave-mode commands to that FIFO?

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