[MPlayer-advusers] How to mask the keystrokes in slave mode ?

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 10/6/05, rexian <maillist at roomity.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wonder if it is possible to start MPlayer in slave mode in such a way that the video window doesn't react to keystrokes.
>
> I am starting it like this at 200% but when a user presses ESC or Q,, it quits.
>
> mplayer -slave -quiet  -nojoystick -nolirc -geometry 50%:50% -xy 2 -mms://xyz.com/xyz.asf
>
> Actually the video window is always in focus since I am embedding it within a Java application and I need to make mplayer not receive the keystrokes.
>
> Did I miss any option in http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt or http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html ?
>
> I saw the -nomouseinput option but was actually looking for a -nokeyboard option. Any ideas / suggestions friends ?

If I recall correctly, it should be possible to rebind all the keys of
input.conf to smth else if you want to do smth like what you are
trying to get at....

Guillaume
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