[MPlayer-users] change_rectangle in slave mode doesn't do anything

[Rolf Ernst]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Steve Ricketts <velocedge at hotmail.com>wrote:

> I'm using mplayer in slave mode and trying to change the width/height and
> x/y
> location.  No matter what I enter, nothing happens.
>
> change_rectangle 0 100 (increase width by 100)
> change_rectangle 1 -200 (decrease height by 100)
> change_rectangle 2 -1 (move to leftmost pos)
>
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do for the ability to resize and
> reposition a
> video under slave mode?
>
> I assume you are sending this via stdin/outputStream in your code? If so,
are you sending a newline after the command? I do this in my code and it
works just fine. Are you sure you are flushing the buffer?

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