[vdr] xineplayer uncontrolable...

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

martinez at embl.de schrieb:
> VDR 1.7.7
> 
> I have installed the mplayer plugin
> 
> and read the MANUAL in the xine plugin, consequently modified mplayer.sh
> to call xineplayer instead of mplayer
> 
> So far so good but when I open the mplayer plugin and play any file (for example
> a .avi ) the movie displays correctly but there is no way to pause it, or
> otherwise control it.
> 
> I press pause and I see the pause symbol on the screeen but whereas playing
> normal vdr recordings it works fine, with the mplayer plugin and xineplayer the
> movie does not pause.
> 
> Anybody has experienced this and more important found a way to get this working?

This is by design: this functionality requires SLAVE mode, but
xineplayer currently only supports TRADITIONAL.

Bye.
-- 
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl at gmx.de