[MPlayer-users] Multiple Viewing Windows on Different Monitors

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Ulrich Lukas wrote:
| Hi,
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| if you want to simultaneously control (play/stop/pause/rewind etc.) both
| mplayer instances, this could be done by using the slave input mode and
| feeding to both instances the same commandos at the same time.
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| Maybe there is a shellscript guru on this mailinglist who knows how to
| do this with a small script. (I would use a small C program)


gnome-mplayer, a gui for mplayer, has a dbus interface that allows you
to control all running instances, groups or single instances based on
the specified control id.

that can all be done via shell scripting using dbus-send.

Something like this
To send command to ALL running gnome-mplayers (multihead applications)
dbus-send  --type=signal / com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'


When windowid is not specified
dbus-send  --type=signal /pid/[pid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'


When windowid is specified
dbus-send  --type=signal /window/[windowid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'

When controlid is specified
dbus-send  --type=signal /control/[controlid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'


Kevin


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