[MPlayer-users] how to get the OEF with using mplayer slave ?

[Alexandre CONRAD]

Hello,

I'm writing a frontend to mplayer in -slave -idle mode. I would like to 
know how I can catch when the current playing video reaches the End Of File?

It seems that a \n "newline" is sent to stdout when the file finished. 
But it's hard to parse when other messages during playback appear... 
reading some mpeg2 files shows "Broken frame at 0x42720" at the end with 
some new lines which doesn't make it easy to catch.

Right now, I'm sending the "get_percent_pos" every 0.1 seconds and load 
the next video when "ANS_PERCENT_POSITION=100" returns. But it's not at 
all accurate on very short videos because you kinda get:

ANS_PERCENT_POSITION=50
ANS_PERCENT_POSITION=100

But sometimes, I don't have time to catch the "100", the video is 
already finished and unloaded. Which results as blocking my application 
trying to read the stdout pipe buffer waiting for 
"ANS_PERCENT_POSITION=100" to come in.

So I thought about a new syntax that could request mplayer to send back 
the video's name:

send > get_loaded
recv < "foo.mpg"

And when no video is playling
send > get_loaded
recv < "no file is currently loaded"

I'm not a C programmer so I couldn't do that my self.

But maybe this is just too much. Has anyone got an clean and accurate 
way to catch the EOF ? Thanks.

Best regards,
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