[MPlayer-users] About some API

[Corey Hickey]

Alan wrote:
> So... I know that mplayer does not a library, so word API here not 
> valid, but I can't called my question other than that :) just sorry :)
> 
> so. I want to write a Perl script (plugin) for my X-Chat, so. I want to 
> post via IRC information about what audio|video track is currently 
> playing. I mean - I start mplayer and xchat plugin send into irc channel 
> info about what file I opened, bitrate, length, file size and other 
> useful information. So I need, that mplayer store this information 
> somewhere (maybe ~/.mplayer/nowplaying or other way).

Take a look at the output mplayer prints when you use the -identify 
option. I'm sure you could wrap your mplayer in a script that dumps all 
the lines starting with ID_ into a file. MPlayer doesn't always know all 
the information you want when it opens the file, but it should work for 
most files.

-Corey