[MPlayer-users] Scripting MPlayer....

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 10:54:40 CEST 2007


Hi,

On 9/10/07, pnunn <pnunn at infoteq.com.au> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm looking for some help setting up a system that needs to just continuously
> play video clips in a loop.
>
> I need to be able to start them at boot... and change the playlist if you like
> by uploading new files remotely to the system.
>
> I need to know when a new one starts so I can log some information about it.
>
> Can someone give me some clues as to the best way to do this?
>
> Not sure if I should use a play list and just change it from under mplayer, or
> run a script that just loops through files in a directory... any input
> greatly appreciated.

Use the slave more. It's explained in DOCS/tech/slave.txt (from the
top of my head)


Guillaume
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