[MPlayer-dev-eng] remotely controlling MPlayer (from another program)

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 07:26:34PM +0200, Torsten Mohr wrote:
> i'd like MPlayer to play some audio or video stream, just
> what MPlayer normally does.
> 
> But at some external event i'd like it to:
> 
> - save its state (for continuing)
> - play something else, some different audio or video stream
> - continue witht the first stream
> 
> Is some functionality like this already implemented somehow?

Not really, you can get the current position in % over the slave
interface and later seek back to it. But you cannot find out which
file is currently being played.
See DOCS/tech/slave.txt

> Can i have this functionality by some other way?

Yes, code it :)


		Attila Kinali