[MPlayer-users] problems with slave mode in Windows

[Alec Bennett]

I"m trying to control mplayer from a Python script under Windows. There
seems to be some quirks?

For example, running mplayer with the -slave switch does nothing:

mplayer -slave c:/whatever.wav

(c:/whatever.wav plays normally, mplayer exits when done, not in slave mode)

This on the other hand successfully puts mplayer into slave mode:

mplayer -

However it doesn't seem to respond to commands. For example, typing
"fileopen c:/whatever.wav" does nothing and typing "fileopen c:/whatever.wav
\n" returns the error "Cannot seek backwards in linear stream!"

This command does the same as "mplayer -":

mplayer - c:/whatever.wav

Does anyone know if mplayer's slave mode works under Windows?