[MPlayer-cygwin] Slave-mode

[Hans-Carl Oberdalhoff]

Hello List,

I'm playing around, trying to use ruby under windows to control the
mplayer using slave-mode. And I get some problems.

Here is a bit of example code:

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#Defs
$MPlayerExe = "x:/video-projekt/mplayer/mplayer.exe"
$VideoFile = "x:/video-projekt/video.mpg"

#start mplayer
$mplayer = IO.popen($MPlayerExe+" -slave -osdlevel 2 -quiet "+$VideoFile,"w+")

#Read its output.
Thread.new {
  while true
   $mplayer.each {|line|
   puts "GOT "+line
  }
  sleep 0.1
  end
 }

#send commands to mplayer
puts "get time"
$mplayer.puts "get_time_pos"
puts "try pause"
$mplayer.puts "pause"

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I can read mplayers output nicely, as expected. But is does not care
about the input (commands).
(And yes, "puts" sends a newline ;) )
I tried things like flushing, using printf and write.
Can someone help?

While studying the problem I saw the following:
 "echo pause | mplayer -slave video.mpg"
does work nicely and pauses the video.

But, if I use ruby (with a script containing for example 'puts "pause"')
 "ruby script.rb | mplayer -slave video.mpg"
nothing happens. (video plays on)

What is different here?
Btw, it does also NOT work, if I use these commandsinside an MSYS shell.

Can anyone help?
greetz,
Hans-Carl