[MPlayer-users] Writing a frontend with slave mode

[Jason Tackaberry]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:15 -0800, Shane wrote:
> mplayer?  For example, can mplayer remain running after a
> file completes and send some sort of status back to the
> controller app rather than simply exiting?

-idle

> Currently, I would have to launch an mplayer process for every track .
> How do other frontends accomplish something similar?

Before -idle, that's what they did, or else they managed the playlist
via slave command before the current file reached EOF (or, if they knew
the playlist before mplayer starts, just specified each file as
arguments).

Cheers,
Jason.
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