[MPlayer-users] Streaming to mplayer with php, how that ?

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 10/03/09 09:29, Cedric Malitte wrote:
> 2009/10/3 Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de>
> 
>>
>>> User action -> input triggers -> php process -> send video to mplayer
>>>
>>> If no action, plays randomly some "waiting" videos.
>>
>> I've done it this way:
>>
>> User action -> php process -> tell mplayer which file (or stream) to play
>>
>> Why do you have to stream it to mplayer?
>>
>> Greets,
>> Kiste
>>
> 
> I thought streaming would be easier because I do not want to close and
> reopen mplayer, but I might misunderstand how mplayer works.I tested mplayer
> to stay opened and load a file, but I'm unable to catch when mplayer is done
> playing the curent video.

Current mplayers emit an ID_EXIT=EOF or something similar when mplayer
exits. You need to use the -identify option to see it.

Another option would be to use gnome-mplayer and just leave it running
and send it a dbus command it have it open a file.

To send command to ALL running gnome-mplayers

dbus-send  --type=signal / com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'

When you know the pid of gnome-mplayer specified
dbus-send  --type=signal /pid/[pid] com.gnome.mplayer.Play
string:'http://www.hotmail.com/playfile.asx'

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

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

There are many other options that just "Play" as well, such as "Add",
"Pause", "Stop", "FastForward", "Reverse", "Seek"

you can start gnome-mplayer like this

gnome-mplayer --window=-1 --controlid=1234

And it will remain hidden until a video is played, so that you can send
it music files to play in the background.

It does more things as well.


> 
> As you already did it, and reinventing the wheel is useless...
> Any clue or code to share ? ;)
> 
> Greets,
> Cedric

Hope that is helpful,

Kevin


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