Hello again, Now my intelligent library for movies as well as documentation and photos is quite ready and as an example I've written a HTML OSD mechanism in perl utilizing firefox which is following: -snip- #!/usr/bin/perl -w # csmplayer # CutSys extension for mplayer # (c) dion.rasmussen@gmail.com use IO::Handle; # fork a player control process to write my $info_pipe_pid = open IPR, '-|'; IPR->autoflush(); die "can't open stdout" unless defined $info_pipe_pid; if(!$info_pipe_pid) { system("killall gmplayer"); system("gmplayer -user Mandrake -passwd mandrake\@gangsterfreak.com-skin Terminator3 -vo xv -prefer-ipv4 -quiet -playlist $ARGV[0]"); exit; } open IPW, '>test-pipe' or die "can't open test-pipe $!..."; IPW->autoflush(); print IPW "New session:\n"; my $cut_id; my $ssh_pid; while(<IPR>){ print; if( /^Playing/ ){ # append to the player_log ;) print IPW; # kill the screensaver hold if ($ssh_pid) { kill 15, $ssh_pid; wait; undef $ssh_pid; } # open firefox/osd for CutSys info if( /(http:\/\/[^\/]+)\/cut\/(\d+)/ && (!defined $cut_id ||$2 != $cut_id) && `pidof firefox-bin`) { $cut_id = $2; system "firefox $1/uf/$cut_id"; } } if (/^VIDEO/) { die "couldn't fork" unless defined ($ssh_pid = fork); if(!$ssh_pid) { close IPW; close IPR; # deactivate the screensaver system 'gnome-screensaver-command -d'; # hold the screensaver exec 'gnome-screensaver-command -i'; die "couldn't exec"; } } } print IPW "Lost the pipe...\n"; close IPW; wait; close IPR; if ($ssh_pid) { kill 15, $ssh_pid; wait; } print "done"; -snip- The killall is a problem when that patch I posted earlier ain't applied, but it's showing a quite delicious representation of the current album or series domain which is currently playing. Apropos GUI talk earlier I thought of using libgtkhtml with some perl-hooks or whatever for retrieving track-info and showing it in a HTML-rendered part of the GUI instead of firefox. Just a thought! Regards, Dion