[MPlayer-users] specifying input fifo in ~/.mplayer/config?

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Mar 28 15:08:59 CEST 2010


On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:42:51PM +0200, Wicher Minnaard wrote:
> I'm using a fifo to control mplayer, like this:
> mplayer -input file=~/.mplayer/fifo /path/to/moviefile
> 
> Works like a charm. I expected to be able to specify this option in my
> ~/.mplayer/config like this:
> input=file=/path/to/.mplayer/fifo
> 
> That doesn't work (the fifo is not read), but no related errors occur in
> verbose output of mplayer.

Seems to work, at least the parsing part.
input=file=bla
in the config file results in "Can't stat bla: No such file or directory"


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