[Lcdproc] mplayer info to lcdproc

[Bernhard Walle]

* Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de> [2007-07-04 09:41]:
> * Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave@gmail.com> [2007-07-04 01:52]:
> >
> > Thanks for your hard work Bernhard.  I compiled it and started to play
> > with it.  Unfortunately, itsn't quite what I was hoping for.  Perhaps
> > I am simply not using it properly.  It appears as if this is meant to
> > be controlled by buttons on some LCDs, and invoke mplayer by pushing a
> > button.
> >
> > What I was hoping for is something like:
> > /usr/bin/mplayerwrapper.sh filename.avi
> > which would then play just as if running "/usr/bin/mplayer", but
> > display info on the LCD screen as well.
> >
> > Bernhard seems to have all the logic in the mplayer.c file though, so
> > perhaps someone can figure out how to extract it for something like
> > this.  I'm not a programmer, but I may try to dive into it.
> 
> I see. I also want something like this, so if I sit in front of my PC,
> I don't need the IR control just to play music. I think I'll implement
> this with a simple socket interface in mplayer.c, and an additional
> script that controls that interface.

Implemented. http://www.bwalle.de/temp/lcd-stuff-0.1.3-pre.tar.bz2

Now lcd-stuff has a network interface if enabled via '[network]' in
the configuration file. The source distribution contains an example
program in Python to use that network interface.

Please understand that I want to keep this simple. I don't want to
create another clone of mpd. ... :-)


       Bernhard
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