[MPlayer-dev-eng] new slave volume control command

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 15 August 2002 16:57, you wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> > what about separating the current mplayer GUI support to an external
> > project? and let backend and frontend comm. via tcp/ip? IMHO thats more
> > elegant than compiling a (stupid) GUI into a (great) cmdlinetool...
>
> s at tcp/ip at unix sockets@ and it makes sense. Otherwise its nonsense,
> anyone can connect and control your mplayer (unless someone adds a
> bloated access control layer, and even then anyone on localhost could
> screw with it). Of course even better is just controlling thru pipes,
> or just sticking with the current method.

Well, one problem with the current method is that if your piping data into 
mplayer from stdin, you can't use the slave commands.
A pipe or a unix socket would be really nice.

Bye
Alex