[MPlayer-users] Quoting and manipulating variables in mplayer slave mode

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:50:16AM +0200, David Liontooth wrote:
> echo 'osd_show_property_text "${filename}" 1000 0' > $FIFO ; sleep 1
> 
> Is this correct? And there's no way to do on-the-fly string
> manipulations in this second case?

Of course there is, probably something like
echo "osd_show_property_text \"\${filename}\" 1000 0"
But that is exclusively a propert of your shell and has nothing
at all to do with MPlayer, just look at the output of just
running the "echo" without redirecting it to MPlayer.
Either way this is rather the wrong place to ask since it
doesn't really have much to to with MPlayer itself.