Re: mplayerplug-in leaving zombies

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Forest Bond wrote:

>> The main reason is this. When a media file is over in mplayer "-idle"
>> mode. Mplayer doesn't say that the file is over. It just quits sending
>> output. I've asked them to add this feature or even to add a property
>> that can be queried to see if the file is complete. But so far no good.
> 
> There is such a property:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> get_property filename
> ANS_filename=test.mpg
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But after the file has finished playing:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> get_property filename
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hum, I'll have to look into that... However going with that method will
require a massive reorganization of the code to make it work.

>> Have you tried "quit()" instead of "Stop()"? They actually do different
>> things.
> 
> Yes, I believe I tried it.  Both require a delay that is much too long for my
> application.  Using the loadfile command to mplayer reduces that delay
> significantly (a power of ten or more, rough estimate).
> 
> What do quit and Stop do differently?

It depends, for streaming media they do the same thing, the tell mplayer
to 'quit'. I think tv:// is considered streaming in your case. And this
should be immediate, mplayer should not hang or become a zombie. If it
is you may want to try compiling the SVN version of mplayer.

For non-streaming media quit tells mplayer to quit, stop tells mplayer
to seek to position 0 and pause.

Kevin

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