[MPlayer-cygwin] Does -slave work on Windows 98?

[RVM]

El Jueves, 4 de Octubre de 2007 14:05, Gianluigi Tiesi escribió:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:43:21AM +0200, RVM wrote:
> > I'm developing a mplayer front-end using the Qt libraries (smplayer). So
> > theorically it should work too on Windows 98.
> >
> > But I've been reported that smplayer doesn't work properly under Windows
> > 98 and Windows ME.
> >
> > I installed Win 98 in a virtual machine, and indeed the problem seems
> > that mplayer ignores (or doesn't get) the slave commands. I tested with
> > another GUI (MPUI) and it has exactly the same problem.
> >
> > Tested several mplayer builds, including 1.0rc1, with the same result.
> >
> > Is this a bug in mplayer, or simply it's a limitation of those versions
> > of Windows?
> > --
>
> /*
>  * w9xpopen.c
>  *
>  * Serves as an intermediate stub Win32 console application to
>  * avoid a hanging pipe when redirecting 16-bit console based
>  * programs (including MS-DOS console based programs and batch
>  * files) on Window 95 and Windows 98.
>  *
>  * This program is to be launched with redirected standard
>  * handles. It will launch the command line specified 16-bit
>  * console based application in the same console, forwarding
>  * its own redirected standard handles to the 16-bit child.
>
>  * AKA solution to the problem described in KB: Q150956.
>  */
>
> http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/PC/w9xpopen.c

So do I have to compile that program and call it instead of mplayer.exe?

I tried but it doesn't work. w9xpopen.exe correctly calls mplayer and the 
video plays, but the problem persists, mplayer doesn't obey any slave 
commands :-(


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RVM