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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Launching mplayer from within Links2 using a shell script Post 303025175 by ignatius on Thursday 25th of October 2018 10:21:36 PM
Old 10-25-2018
Launching mplayer from within Links2 using a shell script
I'm using the Links2 console web browser in graphical mode (the "-g" argument), and launching a shell script
that invokes MPlayer from within it. MPlayer works fine. No problem there. The problem, is that I have no
control over the MPlayer process. I would like to be able to exit MPlayer whenever i'd like, without having to
press Ctrl-C. Which terminates both MPlayer and Links2. It seems whenever I input anything on the keyboard,
it affects Links2, rather than MPlayer. Below is my shell script.

Thank you for your time.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

#save videos here
viddir=/root/video

killall mpg123; killall mplayer; killall movgrab

vidlink=$(sed -e s/https/http/g ${1} | head -1)
vidname=$(echo ${vidlink} | cut -d "=" -f 2)
viddata=`movgrab -st 30 -T ${vidlink} -o - 2>&1`
vidtitle=$(echo ${viddata} | grep "TEST MODE" | cut -d "'" -f 2)

mkfifo /tmp/vidfifo
vidname=/tmp/vidfifo

format=3gp:400x240

available=$(echo ${viddata} | grep -e ${format})

if [ -z "$available" ]; then
    format=3gp:176x144
fi


(movgrab -q -st 30 -b -f $format ${vidlink} -o ${vidname} 2>/dev/null &) &

  mplayer -vo fbdev "${vidname}"

killall movgrab; rm "${vidname}"

Last edited by ignatius; 10-26-2018 at 12:15 PM..
 

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movixmaker-2

MOVIXMAKER-2(1) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   MOVIXMAKER-2(1)

NAME

       MoviXMaker-2 - Easily create customized eMoviX/MoviX/MoviX2 disc images

SYNOPSIS

	   movixmaker-2[.pl] [--version|--help] [--verbose] [--debug]
			 [--nogui] [--nodelete] [--boot-help-lang=Language]
			 [--menu-lang=Language] [--subtitleFonts=FontSet]
			 [--tv-region=Region] [--remote=RemoteControl]
			 [--keyboard=KbLayout] [--movix=MovixSrcDir]
			 [-o=OutputFile] [-t=TempDir] [-b=BootLabel]
			 [--loop=NbrOfLoops] [--random] [--nodma]
			 [--eject] [--reboot] [--shut]
			 [--extra-genisoimage-options="opt1 opt2 ..."]
			 [--extra-mplayer-options="opt1 opt2 ..."]
			 [--unwanted-mplayer-options="opt1 opt2 ..."]

DESCRIPTION

       MoviXMaker is a simple Perl command line utility or a GTK+-2/Gnome2/GladeXML interface to create customized eMoviX/MoviX/MoviX2 ISO files.

	 It includes disk image customization possibilities such as :
	  - boot help language, subtitle fontset, boot label selection.
	  - you can specify [e]MoviX[2] parameters such as :
	    movix/mplayer menu language (language), keyboard layout (kb),
	    tv region (region), remote control (remote), loop, random,
	    shutdown (shut), reboot, eject, dma, extra_mplayer_options and
	    unwanted_mplayer_options.

OPTIONS

       All options that may be abbreviated to uniqueness can use a single dash.

       --version

	   Displays MoviXMaker-2's version and exits.

       --help

	   Display help messages [similar to this help] then exits.

       --verbose

	   Verbose genisoimage output.

       --debug

	   Debug mode (kind of movixmaker-2 verbose).

       --nogui

	   Do not display the graphical interface.

       --nodelete

	   Don't delete temporary directory.

       --boot-help-lang=Language

	   Specify the language of the CD boot help messages.

       --menu-lang=Language

	   Specify the MoviX/MPlayer menu language.

       --tv-region=Region

	   Specify the tv region among: ntsc, ntsc-j, pal, pal-60, pal-nc, pal-m, pal-m60, pal-x, secam.

       --remote=Remote

	   Specify the remote control among: hauppauge, haupserial, hauppauge2, logitech, pctv, abit, realmagic, grundig_tp720, kingman_code_026.

       --subtitleFonts=FontSet

	   Specify which font set will be included in iso image.

       -k KbLayout, --keyboard=KbLayout

	   Specify the keyboard layout to use.

       -m MovixSrcDir, --movixDir=MovixSrcDir

	   Location of the *MoviX* directory.

       -o OutputFile, --output-file=OutputFile

	   Name [with full path!] of the output iso image.

       -t TempDir, --tmpDir=TempDir

	   Directory that will contain the temporary files.

       -b BootLabel, --boot-label=BootLabel

	   Make *MoviX* boot with your favorite label (new default boot label).

       --loop=NbrOfLoops

	   Don't delete temporary directory.

       --random

	   Don't delete temporary directory.

       --nodma

	   Make *MoviX* run with DMA turned off (fixes old-HDs issues).

       --eject

	   Make *MoviX* eject the CD once it finished playing.

       --reboot

	   Make *MoviX* reboot the PC once it finished playing.

       --shut

	   Make *MoviX* poweroff the PC once it finished playing.

       --extra-genisoimage-options="opt1 opt2 ..."

	   Extra options for genisoimage.

       --extra-mplayer-options="opt1 opt2 ..."

	   Extra options for MPlayer.

       --unwanted-mplayer-options="opt1 opt2 ..."

	   Options you want to be sure MPlayer will not use.

AUTHOR

       Pascal Giard, <evilynux@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

SEE ALSO

       Gnome2(3), Gtk2(3), Getopt::Long(3), Config::IniFiles(3)

perl v5.8.8							    2007-09-02							   MOVIXMAKER-2(1)
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