[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Mplayer win32 GUI questions

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:38:44AM -0500, Erik Lunchpail wrote:
> > Q4) I've bound various Windows file types to the GUI
> > inclusive Mplayer.exe
> > (action open with <path>\player.exe "%1"). Works
> > great; until I doubleclick
> > another media file and so a second instance of
> > Mplayer opens, which is not
> > what is useful in this case.
> > Is there a trick to always use the same instance of
> > a running Mplayer?
> 
> Sent Gianluigi a new patch for that. I used
> WM_COPYDATA to enable IPC to send filenames/parse
> playlists in the current running mplayer. Check his
> site in the next while for updated builds.

Can you send this patch to the list please?  Other MPlayer packages
could benefit from this code, not to mention the possibility of it being
cleaned up in a platform-independant way and put in CVS.

--Joey

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