[MPlayer-dev-eng] Communicating with mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:48:45PM +0100, Stefan Jonasson wrote:
> lör 2003-11-29 klockan 15.09 skrev 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...
> > 
> Humm.. Is it even posseble to do this without fork? At least it seems
> quite hard to make a network server intervined with a movieplayer.. 

Of course. RTFM select. It's no harder than making a movie player
"intervined" with a keyboard reader for input...

Rich