[MPlayer-users] mplayer -slave... (how to) disable, keyboard input?

[Lee Jackson]

Lee Jackson wrote:
> Lee Jackson wrote:
>
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>>> "The -slave option switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend
>>> for other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read
>>> commands separated by a newline (\n) from stdin." - slave.txt
>>>
>>> I'm probably misunderstanding what was intended here because the behavior I'm seeing in MPlayer doesn't match this description. 
>>>
>>> Basically, I want to disable keyboard commands when the mplayer video window has focus so that a press of "q", for example, doesn't quit the application. However if I run :
>>>
>>> mplayer -slave -quiet egvideo.avi 
>>>
>>> a press of "q" will still quit if the window has focus (I can also do "q<return>" from the launching console window). I've tried this with the -noconsolecontrols option to no avail.
>>>
>>> So am I misunderstanding the meaning of the above or is there something wrong here? (MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.3 by the way)
>>>
>>> tia
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>       
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>> Add "-noconsolecontrols" to your commandline
>>     
>> Kevin
>>     
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> Seems I switched to non-digest email too late so only had a digest with this response in. My apology's in advance for the out of thread response.
>
> I have already tried -noconsolecontrols (as a commandline option) as detailed above. Does your response mean that my interpretation of what *should* be happening is at least correct?
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I had a little time to look at this in some more detail this morning.

mplayer.c line 2604
mp_input_add_key_fd(-1,0,mplayer_get_key,NULL);

The above line seems to be responsible for adding console keyboard input 
and if it is commented out, or the line immediately prior is prefixed by 
a suitable if statement [ e.g. if (!slave_mode) ], then slave mode works 
as I had expected it to behave. Thats a very quick hack though, based on 
VERY limited knowledge (note that Im also observing this problem with 
the svn version obviously).

Anways, the console keyboard input behavior in slave mode APPEARS to be 
broken (and from browsing the rep, has been for a long time) and it 
would be useful for an active developer to have a look at this - it may 
just be a case of the documentation differing from the 
implimentation.... as an aside, the importance of this to me is that I'm 
embedding mplayer in a QT4 widget and I want to disable any other input 
apart from that which I define.

I note there are several GUIs for mplayer which presumably are not 
affected by this; can anyone provide a quick heads up on how they 
approach remapping/ignoring mplayers keyboard handling?

One other thing, An additional quite from the help file :

"-noconsolecontrols
Prevent MPlayer from reading key events from standard input. Useful when 
reading data from standard input. This is automatically enabled when - 
is found on the command line. There are situations where you have to set 
it manually, e.g. if you open /dev/stdin (or the equivalent on your 
system), use stdin in a playlist or intend to read from stdin later on 
via the load‐file or loadlist slave commands."

I'm having a little difficulty understanding this but it sounds to me 
like it should do, more-or-less the same as slave_mode in regards to 
keyboard input? If thats the case then its similarly broken.

tia

Lee