[MPlayer-users] slave mode question

[Jonas Beskow]

Greetings,

I want to control mplayer from another program. I'm suspecting that the 
slave-option is the way to do it, but I can't find any documentation 
about how it works. Specifically, after launching mplayer as a 
sub-process to my application, i want to be able to

- open a new file
- go to a specific position in the movie and freeze the picture
- play a movie from one given position to another
- prevent mplayer from exiting when it reaches the end of the file

I would be much grateful if someone could tell me how to accomplish 
this, or point me to other programs/frontends that use mplayer as a 
sub-process to acheive similar things!

best regards
- Jonas

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