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

[j.a.l]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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
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  an extra option, name of a fifo, would be still better ( simple / 
faster ) than tcp/ip, thread, could be a solution too ( yes, i do hate 
tcp oriented protocol, for local communication.... ) ( and again, what 
about corba ???, i use it in all my soft ex : namp )