On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:09:40AM -0500, Aubin Paul wrote:
I scanned through the mailing lists, and no one seems to have brought this up before; what are the possibilities of creating a FIFO pipe in /tmp/ such that messages could piped to the OSD; i.e. other applications could be configured to print notifications in the subtitle area. Even something silly like piping a 'biff' to the output or a transfer completion from another app. All mplayer would need to do is accept the pipe (i.e. /tmp/.mplayer-messages) and print it using the existing OSD methods. (I'm not implying that it's trivial to implement, just the scope of effort)
There has been such ideas for a while (to make mplayer a real backend player I mean) but no real code appeared or I may have missed it. Check around the -slave mode implementation as it might help you (it reads command from stdin or a pipe IIRC). A new command might be what you need. Dunno if it still works with new-input code though... -- Best regards, pl