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

[Rolf Ernst]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Steve Ricketts <velocedge at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Wow... confused on many levels now. ;-)  I was running the command:
>  mplayer -slave videofile
> from the command line.  It was taking inputs fine (play, pause, mute, etc.)
> I
> paused the playback and entered a change_rectangle command followed by
> enter.
> That's when I posted the first question.
>
> Reading your post, I thought maybe a needed to add \n before pressing the
> enter
> key.  However, when I ran the mplayer -slave command again, it's only
> accepting
> one character commands and I'm not able to control like before.
>
> So, now I have two questions:
>
> 1. Do I need to be communicating mplayer from a program (not keyboard)?
> 2. Why can't I run mplayer from terminal now like I did the first time?
>
> top removed since it says lines longer than 80 characters
>
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Well, the whole idea of slave mode is to run it from a piece of code instead
of the command line. I do not believe the change_rectangle is available as
an interactive command.