[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Create an async interface to Slave mode

[Benjamin Zores]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:45:00 +0200
Jan Knutar <jknutar at nic.fi> wrote:

> On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:42, Brian Murray wrote:
> > Being able to send a command to mplayer without having a pre-existing
> > open channel to it (such as stdin/out), and recieve data back. Unless
> > theres already an interface I overlooked... :S
> 
> I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config :
> 
> input= file=/home/jan/mplayerctrl
> 
> where mplayerctrl is a fifo. This lets me send commands to MPlayer.
> Would be nice to have another fifo to read output, too, of course :)

I've sent such a patch with event/info retrieval capabilities few months ago
(something like August iirc).

Ben

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