[MPlayer-users] SIGCONT causes fast-forward effect

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:29:41 -0800
> Pete Nesbitt <pete at linux1.ca> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> I have it
>> functioning at the cli but when I start the player (with the same cmd)
>> from within the script, a write to the fifo file just hangs and does
>> not return. This happens writting to it via script or at cli. Strange.
>>
>> I'm using this in both cli and script, with $TRACK being the path to
>> the flac audio file.
>>
>> mplayer -slave -input file=/data/cm_temp/mplayer_cmds_fifo -quiet
>> ${TRACK} &> /dev/null
>>
>> echo pause > /data/cm_temp/mplayer_cmds_fifo
>>
>> Anyway, I really like the FIFO idea, and will work on finding why the
>> script-started mplayer is not letting anything write to the fifo.
>>
> 
> I fixed the hanging/non-return issue, I can tail the fifo file and it is
> being written but not being picked up by mplayer.
> 
> It does not seem to matter what I send mplayers stdout/err to (null or
> the pipe).
> 
> So a little progress anyway. Could the backgrounded while-loop that
> mplayer runs in be involved? It does not seem likely, player should
> still see the pipe/file.
> 
> This is the guts of the loop, I need to send output somewhere to get
> control back when I bg it, so I think the 'done' line need to stay as
> is.
> 
>   while ....
>    do
>      ...
>      ${MPLAYER} -slave -input file=/data/cm_temp/mplayer_cmds_fifo \
>        -quiet ${TRACK} &> /dev/null
>       ...
>    done < ${PLAY_LIST} &> /dev/null &
> 
> -Pete

Try adding -nocache to the mplayer command and see if that helps with
mplayer finding the end of file better.

Kevin
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