[MPlayer-users] Scripting MPlayer try 2

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Jack Smith wrote:
> On 9/14/07, pnunn <pnunn at infoteq.com.au> wrote:
>> Thanks to the help of Gullaume and Jack I've got closer to where I need to be
>> with this scripting problem I'm having.
>>
>> I've managed to get a script running as....
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> loop=1
>> while [ $loop -gt 0 ]; do
>>         for X in ../Download/*.mp4
>>         do
>>                 ./getfix
>>                 echo $X>>fixlog
>>                 #mplayer -vo xll -really-quiet -noboarder -fs $X
>>                 mplayer -vo x11 -really-quiet -noborder -fs echo $X
>> &>/dev/null
>>         done
>>         #for debugging
>>         echo $loop>>fixlog
>>         let loop=loop+1
>> done
>>
>> which happily plays and logs the files in the directory.  However, between
>> each movie, it drops back briefly to the background screen which I can't let
>> happen.
>>
>> So.. I started looking at slave mode.
>>
>> I used the command line
>>
>> mplayer -fs -fixed-vo -slave -idle -input file=/home/pnunn/.mplayer/pipe
>>
>> after creating the pipe and by sending a file to the pipe with
>>
>>  echo "loadfile /home/pnunn/Download/robot-chicken-gummy-bear.mp4 1"
>>> /home/pnunn/.mplayer/pipe
>> the first file plays just fine.  When it ends, the screen stays up and I
>> thought I was nearly there.
>>
>> however, when I send another file to the pipe, it plays in a small window in
>> the top corner of the screen (not full screen).. also, I need a way for the
>> script to be able to determine when the playing file has finished so that it
>> can log the information I need and start the next one.
>>
> 
> I ran into a small screen/full screen problem myself if an older
> screen doesn't go away.  If you do a ps -ef | grep mplayer do you have
> two of them running?
> Jack

Maybe add

- -vo x11 -zoom

to your command line?

Kevin

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