[MPlayer-users] Slave mode does not expand properties

[Erik Steffl]

On 12/27/2014 07:32 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 01:59:44AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
>> Trying to get mplayer to print out the currently playing file but the
>> property is always empty.
>>
>> Following instruction at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt,
>> created the fifo and sending command to fifo.
>>
>> This is how the command is sent to mplayer (while a video is playing):
>>
>> echo 'run "echo filename ${filename} stream_pos ${stream_pos}" >>
>> /tmp/mplayer.output.txt' > /tmp/mplayer.slave.fifo
>
> Your quoting is off. Like this the >> and following part will be the
> second and third arguments to the "run" command.

   yeah, quotes are off but it doesn't work with correct quotes either, 
the properties are replaced by empty string... nevermind though, I will 
try mplayer from svn

> I suspect they are silently ignored.
>> echo 'run "echo filename ${filename} stream_pos ${stream_pos} >> /tmp/mplayer.output.txt"' > /tmp/mplayer.slave.fifo
> Works for me
>
>>     - none of the properties are expanded to actual values, i.e. both
>> ${filename} and ${stream_pos} are replaced by empty string in the output
>
> Works for me, try with latest SVN.
>
>> Ubuntu 14.10
>> mplayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-2ubuntu
>
> MPlayer2 is a fork of MPlayer (currently unmaintained to my knowledge, though possibly superseded
> by mpv with larger differences in usage etc. though) and this list can't help you much
> with that.

   thanks for the explanation on what's what, will try to build mplayer 
from svn,

	erik