[MPlayer-dev-eng] Communicating with mplayer

[Arpi]

Hi,

> Hi all. 
> 
> I.m currently working on a bluetooth-daemon for controlling mplayer and
> other stuff from my mobilephone (SonyEricsson T610). I have a working
> implamentation at the moment but it istn.t a verry good solution; the
> way I do it at the moment is that I open mplayer in slave mode from the
> daemon. There are two main problems with this approach.

there was already an ericsson bt input plugin patch for mplayer, but the
patch was not accepted (due to use of fork()). search the archives...

> So the way I whant to do it is by sending commands to an already running
> mplayer process, the only way I can think of is by reimplementing the
> lirc protocoll in my app, and it seems a little bit of an overkill. So
> my question is: Is there another way to do this?

yes, write a module (or better fix the above mentioned one) for libinput


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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