[MPlayer-dev-eng] An attempt at libmplayer

[Benjamin Zores]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Santanu Sinha <santanu.sinha at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Benjamin Zores <ben at geexbox.org> wrote:
>> See http://libplayer.geexbox.org/ it does exactly what you want.
>
> Dear benjamin,
> Saw it. It's nice, but it is not what I want. I want a library that I
> can link to any application and run the program without the invocation
> of any other thing in the background. From the code of libplayer, what
> I understood is that it invokes mplayer as a slave and sends it
> commands through a fifo. Please do correct me if I am wrong.

No, it's exactly that.
Though having MPlayer as a library is something I wanted for quite a
long time which also has been rejected quite too many times.

Ben