[MPlayer-users] question on slave mode

[Stefan Lange]

Martin Grim wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently obtained and installed mplayer. From the looks of the 
> documentation the slave mode would allow piped input to mplayer. This could 
> help me a great deal, but unfortunately I cannot get this to work. Most likely 
> I didn't or did do/read something which I should of shouldn't have...
> 
> I made a small test program which outputs 
> 
> 	pause
> 
> (with new line) to stdout every 5 seconds. This is piped into mplayer like
> 
> 	test | mplayer -slave -playlist videolist.txt
> 

make sure you are actually running _your_ test-program, and not 
/usr/bin/test or some function built into your shell

> I expect that mplayer runs now in the slave mode, taking the pause command. 
> Next, I expect mplayer to play the vidoe's listed in vidoelist.txt. Well, the 
> latter works, but the videos are never paused.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Any tip is greatly appriciated.
> 
> Then, another question (couldn't find this in the documentation, so I am afraid 
> it isn't possible...). Can I jump in the playlist? Thus, is it possible by 
> (piped) command to (e.g.) first play video numer 10, then video 15, then video 
> 1, then video 36, .... Or am I limited to stepping forward/backwards by one?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
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