[Lcdproc] MPlayer output

[Guillaume LECERF]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Alex Wood <thetewood@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I was wondering if there is any way of outputting the info from Mplayer to
> the LCD (iMon) during playback (such as either a progress bar or time/time
> remaining and filename, etc) from something like the slave file (get
> filename percentage done time, etc) or some other means, as it does in
> mythtv (such as whilst recordings, changing menus, etc). I've had a quick
> search, but apart from lcdstuff, which isn't quite what I want (it doesn't
> play nice with mythtvs lcdsever), there doesn't seem to be any way of
> compiling Mplayer with the support either (unless I've missed something very
> obvious, which is entirely possible).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

HI,

I made a patch for MPlayer to copy its output to a fifo [1]. Then I
read it under geexbox with a lcd4linux plugin to display these
informations on a lcd.
It could then be possible to reuse it and develop something on the
lcdproc side to precess the data and display them on the lcd screen.

[1] http://hg.geexbox.org/geexbox/file/tip/packages/MPlayer/patches/575_streaminfo-dump.diff
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Guillaume LECERF
GeeXboX developer - www.geexbox.org