[MPlayer-users] Invoking mplayer from a C program using linux system()

[Julián Nuñez]

On 2/9/07, Anna Klein <aklein at bluenotenetworks.com> wrote:
> Hi mplayer users,
>
> I've written a C program, running on linux, to invoke mplayer to play an
> audio stream from the Internet, by using the system() call.  Is there
> anyway to get a return status from mplayer?
>

I think you are better off running mplayer with the execcl() family of
functions and parsing output to find out about errors.

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