[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] xml docs fix and mpst:// docs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:54:39PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> Hi Diego Biurrun,
> 
> on Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:05:55 +0200 you wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:41:12PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > > At least the -use-stdin part should be corrected as it's state
> > > that -use-stdin is equivalent to - wich is plain WRONG.
> > 
> > Wait, what's the difference between -use-stdin and - then?  It's not
> > very clear from the description yet..
> 
> Ok the name -use-stdin is misleading and my new description is not really
> better.
> As useal on *nix - mean stdin or stdout (depending on the contex). So
> when you put a - on the command line it's a filename (wich here mean
> stdin).
> But when mplayer read data from stdin it shouldn't try to read key
> events from it or everything just goes wrong. So i put this option
> wich prevent mplayer from reading key events from stdin.
> For conivence -use-stdin is auto-enabled when - is found on the command
> line. But in some case we can't know (when parsing the command line)
> that stdin will be used for data, hence this option wich allow to
> set it mannualy.
> In short when putting -use-stdin on the command line mplayer will NOT
> read key events from stdin thus letting it free for other uses (like
> reading movie data, or whatever).
> I hope it's about clear now. As a last resort here is the related code wich
> is perhaps easier to understand than my wired english ;)

IMO it should be renamed to -noconsolecontrols or something...

Rich