[MPlayer-DOCS] slave mode documentation

[Diego Biurrun]

Reimar Döffinger writes:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:26:59AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Here is the list of undocumented commands:
> > 
> >   edl_mark
> 
> Seems to write the current position into the edl file.

OK.

> >   panscan <value> [value2]
> 
> In addition to what I said in my previous mail:
> <value> float value, between 0 and 1 if abs != 0, between -1 and 1
> otherwise (other values are possible but make no sense and are clamped
> automatically)...
> [value2] should be better called [abs], if it is != 0 value will be
> interpreted as absolute value, i.e. the panscan value will be set to
> <value>, else new_panscan_value = old_panscan_value + <value>

Not very elegant, but now I understand how it works.

> >   dvdnav_event <value>
> 
> Will sent a dvdnav event ;-). Don't ask me what dvdnav is and if it's
> supposed to actually work...

It's disabled, I commented it out in configure a loooong time ago.

> >   menu <value>
> 
> Used for navigating the OSD menu (if compile in). Currently <value> can
> be on of:
> up
> down
> ok
> cancel
> hide

OK.

> >   set_menu <value>
> 
> Display the menu with the name <value>. Menus are defined in the menu
> config (etc/menu.conf is an example of one).

OK. 

> >   help
> 
> Supposed to print help for the MPlayer menu console, nothing useful up
> to now...
> 
> I'm not completely sure about the following ones, but here's what I
> think they do:
> 
> >   exit
> 
> Exit MPlayer menu console.
> 
> >   hide <value>
> 
> Hide the menu, of value != 0 for the time specified by value in
> milliseconds?

None of these three commands works for me, I get the following on the
console:

Received unknown cmd help.

I'll commit some updates, we can continue from there.

Diego