I often use the mplayer plugin for vdr and was tired of constantly having to patch the svn of mplayer. So, I asked the guys over at mplayerhq if they could incorporate the slave mode patch we use. I was hoping that working with them could help solve the problem with the mplayer plugin showing the incorrect time when playing back native vdr files. This was their response (forward of email):
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:33:10AM -0800, C.Y.M wrote:
Nico Sabbi wrote:
C.Y.M wrote:
Is this patch an acceptable addition to mplayer? It is used by VDR/DVB to support playback through the DVB card.
Mplayer can already output to FF dvb cards (if this is what you want), but anyway what is this patch supposed to do? Patches must have a description :)
Sorry for the lack of description. This patch is to make the progressbar in VDR work with the MPlayer plugin and slave mode.
As far as I can see this is supposed to make MPlayer constantly print current position. For this there is already the get_percent_pos slave command. So, patch rejected.
Greetings, Reimar Döffinger
On 19 Feb 2005 "C.Y.M" syphir@syphir.sytes.net wrote:
I often use the mplayer plugin for vdr and was tired of constantly having to patch the svn of mplayer. So, I asked the guys over at mplayerhq if they could incorporate the slave mode patch we use. I was hoping that working with them could help solve the problem with the mplayer plugin showing the incorrect time when playing back native vdr files. This was their response (forward of email):
I think a year ago I already asked for inclusion and the patch was rejected with some rude comments from Arti...
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As far as I can see this is supposed to make MPlayer constantly print current position. For this there is already the get_percent_pos slave command. So, patch rejected.
Greetings, Reimar Döffinger
MPlayer plugins is already using get_percent_pos, but obviously this doesn't works for all file formats. So the slavemode patch is the second best solution for now, although this values are incorrect sometimes as well.
Regards.
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:47:29AM +0000, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
MPlayer plugins is already using get_percent_pos, but obviously this doesn't works for all file formats. So the slavemode patch is the second best solution for now, although this values are incorrect sometimes as well.
The devel of mplayer are very often on IRC, channel #mplayerdev and they are very nice, so it could be a good things to go and talk about this specific problem "directly" :-)
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