[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Slave Mode

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Ben Nemec,

on Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:45:51 -0500 you wrote:

> Hi,
> I am having trouble using slave mode in my C++ project.  I've managed to
> get popen to pipe data to mplayer, but it doesn't do anything with it
> until I close the pipe, which freezes the program and doesn't allow me
> to do anything after that.  The code below is how I'm trying to do it,
> and if anyone could help me out it would be appreciated.  I'm sure
> someone is thinking RTFM, but I can't find anything about how to use
> slave mode anywhere, except the different commands that are available. 
> If you could point me in the direction of something better, that would
> also be very helpful and would keep me out of everyone's hair more:-) 
> Thanks.
> 
> FILE *pipe_fp;
You need to flush the FILE stuff with fflush before they really write
the stuff. See man fflush.
	Albeu

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