[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer internal buffer

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Sorry, but I think that maybe I was not clear in the last e-mail.  Please, 
> I would like to know what's the best way for communicating with mplayer 
> using and external application, via linux pipes.  How may the external 
> application know how much space there exists on the mplayer internal 
> buffer in order to send data faster or slower to mplayer?

it can't know, unless it's part of mplayer.
(no way to comminicate backward direction through a shell pipe)

you should implement a new "plugin" (or call it driver, module, whatever)
for the stream layer. see libmpdemux/stream.[c|h]

then your function will be called periodicaly to fill the 2k (2048 or 2324
bytes) buffer. you can implement seeking too.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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