[MPlayer-users] Slave mode does not expand properties

[Erik Steffl]

On 01/02/2015 03:01 PM, Erik Steffl wrote:
> On 12/27/2014 07:32 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 01:59:44AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
>>> Trying to get mplayer to print out the currently playing file but the
>>> property is always empty.
>>>
>>> Following instruction at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt,
>>> created the fifo and sending command to fifo.
>>>
>>> This is how the command is sent to mplayer (while a video is playing):
>>>
>>> echo 'run "echo filename ${filename} stream_pos ${stream_pos}" >>
>>> /tmp/mplayer.output.txt' > /tmp/mplayer.slave.fifo
>>
>> Your quoting is off. Like this the >> and following part will be the
>> second and third arguments to the "run" command.
>
>    yeah, quotes are off but it doesn't work with correct quotes either,
> the properties are replaced by empty string... nevermind though, I will
> try mplayer from svn
>
>> I suspect they are silently ignored.
>>> echo 'run "echo filename ${filename} stream_pos ${stream_pos} >>
>>> /tmp/mplayer.output.txt"' > /tmp/mplayer.slave.fifo
>> Works for me
>>
>>>     - none of the properties are expanded to actual values, i.e. both
>>> ${filename} and ${stream_pos} are replaced by empty string in the output
>>
>> Works for me, try with latest SVN.
>>
>>> Ubuntu 14.10
>>> mplayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-2ubuntu
>>
>> MPlayer2 is a fork of MPlayer (currently unmaintained to my knowledge,
>> though possibly superseded
>> by mpv with larger differences in usage etc. though) and this list
>> can't help you much
>> with that.
>
>    thanks for the explanation on what's what, will try to build mplayer
> from svn,

   for the record, built mplayer from latest svn snapshot, the property 
replacement works fine,

   also reported the bug in Ubuntu 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mplayer2/+bug/1407196

   thanks!

	erik