[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer slave mode

[Diego Biurrun]

Manu Abraham writes:
 > 	How can i use the mplayer slave mode (stdin) ? I would like to feed the 
 > commands to mplayer from another program.

Use a FIFO or something and connect the stdin of MPlayer to it.

 > I'm using MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.2.2. When i try the -slave mode as specified in 
 > the docs, i get the mplayer help output. Or is it that the slave mode has 
 > been deprecated or something like that ? 

Apparently it is broken in current CVS, 0.92 works fine.

Diego