[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Windows GUI MPlayer name change

[Sascha Sommer]

> Quoting Joey Parrish (joey at nicewarrior.org):
> >   2) Add another optional GUI with a better(more portable) design.  This
> >      sucks because we either a) have to add a second set of hooks into
> >      mplayer.c, which is a new nasty hack ontop of an old nasty hack, or
> >      b) we have to force the new GUI to use the old GUI hooks.  These
are
> >      both terrible solutions.
>
> There already *is* a better set of hooks in MPlayer. Ever other MPlayer
GUI
> except for GMPlayer uses -slave mode. I use KPlayer, and although there's
a
> few rough edges it generally works very nicely.
>
> Obviously -slave mode will need some improvement in future--at the very
least
> it needs to accept commands while paused--but I think it's a much better
> architecture for integrating a GUI. It'd be nice if someone ported
GMPlayer to
> use -slave mode, but it doesn't look like anyone's got the motivation.
>

Creating pipes, reading/writting from/to stdin etc. doesn't work that well
on windows :(
I also do not like the idea to parse mplayers output.

Sascha