[MPlayer-users] Use of -slave option in latest CVS

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Tom Bednarchuk,

on Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:18:19 -0500 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi again Alban:
> 
> I tried the following PERL with MPlayer and only the quit command worked.
> Can you take a look?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> print "Hello there !"
> 
> open(MPPIPE, "|mplayer -slave -vo x11 /mnt/cdrom/bootyl~2.mpg");
> sleep 40;
> print MPPIPE "stop\n";
> sleep 10;
> print MPPIPE "play\n";
> sleep 40;
> print MPPIPE "quit\n";
> 
> The video plays for the 90 or so seconds taken up by the sleep() total but
> the stop doesn't seem to work. I put in some printf 's in mplayer.c where
> the command is parsed and after the video stops, the printf 's show up on
> the console but mpayer seems not to care.
Neither stop or play are part of the actual command list. 
But you can try to use this in place : stop = "seek 0\npause\n" and play = "pause\n". 
It shoud do the job, except it will not close the window.
	Albeu