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Old 02-11-2010, 07:43 PM   #1
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newbie: trying to use pipe or awk to work with mplayer


Hi,

I have a text file containing the URL I wanted for mplayer to play. Currently, I play those in commend line using the following steps:

1)cat playlist
2)use mouse to highlight the link
3)type: mplayer then click both left/right mouse button

I was hoping if I can do this in comment line without mouse. I've tried the following without luck

(assume there's only 1 address in the text file)

1) cat playlist |mplayer
2) cat playlist |awk '{print $1}'| mplayer

Thank you.
 
Old 02-11-2010, 08:12 PM   #2
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Hard to say w/o knowing the structure of the playlist ....
something like


cat playlist | xargs -i mplayer {}


may work
 
Old 02-12-2010, 02:13 AM   #3
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Hi Tinkster,

cat playlist | xargs -i mplayer {} works like champs!

One thing I noticed, however, mplayer appeared to play in the background hence I was unable to end the stream with the "q" key (had to use ctrl-C then you will see mplayer's PID stuck in ps and can't be kill). Have you experienced that issue?

As for the structure of the playlist, consider the following example:

Code:
tux@esceo:~$ cat playlist
http://scfire-dtc-aa01.stream.aol.com/stream/1005
tux@esceo:~$
Thank you.
 
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Can't say I've used mplayer to play urls at all, I'm afraid, so
wouldn't know how it handles this. Does mplayer terminate when
you invoke that individually from the command-line? E.g.,
mplayer http://scfire-dtc-aa01.stream.aol.com/stream/1005
 
Old 02-12-2010, 11:19 AM   #5
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Yea, in commend line, if you do mplayer <whatever>, you should be able to terminate the program by hitting the "q" key.

Seems like this is mplayer issue more then command line issue, I guess I will figure that out somewhere else

Thank you very much, Tinkster.
 
  


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