[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Mplayer win32 GUI questions

[Frank Aurich]

Erik Lunchpail wrote:
>> Q4) I've bound various Windows file types to the GUI
>> inclusive Mplayer.exe
>> (action open with <path>\player.exe "%1"). Works
>> great; until I doubleclick
>> another media file and so a second instance of
>> Mplayer opens, which is not
>> what is useful in this case.
>> Is there a trick to always use the same instance of
>> a running Mplayer?
> 
> Sent Gianluigi a new patch for that. I used
> WM_COPYDATA to enable IPC to send filenames/parse
> playlists in the current running mplayer. Check his
> site in the next while for updated builds.
> 
> Regards,
> Erik

I like some of the modifications you did to mplayer with this patch, 
especially the possibility to toggle the console on/off and the new 
feature to not open multiple MPlayer processes when one is running.

Since I don't use a GUI though, I'm wondering if it is possible to do 
some of the things without the need to use --enable-gui at ./configure?

I tried extracting the -console code to integrate it into my build, but 
failed horribly. Then again, my knowledge of C is fairly bad.


Anyway, it'd be great if there's a way to separate GUI code from the 
other enhancements.


Frank

PS: I'm using CVS builds compiled via MingW/MSys