[MPlayer-cygwin] Newbie question

[mikelcdfels]

Hello to everybody.

I need to run some chapters of a DVD from a ANSI C program and i think
mplayer is the easiest solution.

I´m trying to run mplayer in slave mode from an ANSI C program  in a Windows
XP environment.

I can´t communicate with mplayer it seems it doesn´t arrive command to
MPLAYER  or it doesn´t understand.

Every time i´m surfing on the web looking for a solution i get with this
mail list.

Is it a must to communicate with MPLAYER in Windows XP? or is the only way
to do it?

I´ve a binary distribution from MPLAYER. Do i need to rebuild from the
source to work with CYGWIN?

Here is my newbie code

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main (void)
{
  FILE *output;

  //output = _popen ("cmd /c start /min C:\\mplayer\\mplayer.exe -slave
-noborder C:\\spot.mpeg", "w");
  output = _popen ("C:\\mplayer\\mplayer.exe -slave -noborder
C:\\spot.mpeg", "w");
  //output = _popen ("more", "w");
  if (!output)
    {
      fprintf (stderr,
               "incorrect parameters or too many files.\n");
    }

    fprintf (output, "%s\n", "-pause ");
  if (_pclose (output) != 0)
    {
      fprintf (stderr,
               "Could not run more or other error.\n");
    }

}

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Thanks for you patience

Greetings from Barcelona.