[MPlayer-users] help me!! mplayer using network

[pl]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:30:34AM +0200, lanzz at lanzz.org wrote:

> > maybe, in the future, we'll make an userfriendly version/interface/frontend
> > for such people, with gui and all this messy userfriendly stuff.
> 
> on that point, i've always wondered why you decided to build the gui into
> mplayer itself, when you could have implemented just some kind of interactive
> command mode (say, with an unix socket) and let everybody write his own gui :)
> less trouble for mplayer developers, more choice for the end user. but what's
> done is done.

A -slave mode patch has been recently applied. Talkin' to stdin should
be enough I guess.
man mplayer  & search -slave

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Best regards,
  pl