Elinks: Controling Media Player

Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Steve Holmes]

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When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.

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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Why don't you ask this question on the elinks list?

          Kenny

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:50:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
> mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
> fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
> locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
> get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
> Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
> wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
> place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.
> 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Steve Holmes]

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:02:54AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Why don't you ask this question on the elinks list?
> 

Because I'm too lazy to go and subscribe to another possibly high
traffic list for the one question. <heheh> I figured there was enough
elinks users around here that might have worked that out.  I probably
will go over there now because I have some other java related questions
for it as well.  I also figured that there would be more attention paid
to launching audio players from this list than what I might find over
there.  I hope they aren't using a forum; I really don't rlike them nor
do I find them an efficient use of my time at all.  E-mail lists and
newsgroups are much better as they can be agrigated into a single client
for multiple subject areas.  Forums cannot.

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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Kenny Hitt]

hi.

The mailing list isn't high traffic.  They use either the mailing lists
or an IRC channel for support.
I see the same problem, but don't have any solution.  The elinks
developers will need to figure this one out because I can't.  It happens
with zinf as well as mplayer, so it should be easy to produce.

          Kenny

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:26:36AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:02:54AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Why don't you ask this question on the elinks list?
> > 
> 
> Because I'm too lazy to go and subscribe to another possibly high
> traffic list for the one question. <heheh> I figured there was enough
> elinks users around here that might have worked that out.  I probably
> will go over there now because I have some other java related questions
> for it as well.  I also figured that there would be more attention paid
> to launching audio players from this list than what I might find over
> there.  I hope they aren't using a forum; I really don't rlike them nor
> do I find them an efficient use of my time at all.  E-mail lists and
> newsgroups are much better as they can be agrigated into a single client
> for multiple subject areas.  Forums cannot.
> 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Sergei V. Fleytin]

Hello, Kenny and others.

>>>>> "KH" == Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> writes:

KH> hi.  The mailing list isn't high traffic.  They use either the
KH> mailing lists or an IRC channel for support.  I see the same
KH> problem, but don't have any solution.  The elinks developers will
KH> need to figure this one out because I can't.  It happens with zinf
KH> as well as mplayer, so it should be easy to produce.


Just and idea. Why don't use screen to launch a player? It would be
possible then to switch between browser and player windows. I didn't
try it myself yet but I think it should work since this very thrick is
suggested by the author of centericq for launching web browser from a
centericq.

Hope this helps.

Sergei.

Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Steve posted his question to the elinks-user list and we got the answer.
You need to add the following to the end of each line in your .mailcap
file.

; needsterminal

That line tells elinks to release the terminal to the process.  A sample
line looks like

audio/x-pn-realaudio; mplayer -playlist %s ; needsterminal

That line causes mplayer to start when I select a real audio link on a
web site.  Keyboard focus is given to mplayer.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:48:42PM +0400, Sergei V. Fleytin wrote:
> Hello, Kenny and others.
> 
> >>>>> "KH" == Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> writes:
> 
> KH> hi.  The mailing list isn't high traffic.  They use either the
> KH> mailing lists or an IRC channel for support.  I see the same
> KH> problem, but don't have any solution.  The elinks developers will
> KH> need to figure this one out because I can't.  It happens with zinf
> KH> as well as mplayer, so it should be easy to produce.
> 
> 
> Just and idea. Why don't use screen to launch a player? It would be
> possible then to switch between browser and player windows. I didn't
> try it myself yet but I think it should work since this very thrick is
> suggested by the author of centericq for launching web browser from a
> centericq.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Sergei.
> 
> 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Steve Holmes]

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Yes and that works well for me also.  It's great; now I practically
never use lynx the cat anymore!  All I need to do now is decide which
player to use when playing mp3s and oggs.  Zinf displays meta tag
information where mplayer's display is much to convoluted to be worth
anything.

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:24:50AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Steve posted his question to the elinks-user list and we got the answer.
> You need to add the following to the end of each line in your .mailcap
> file.
> 
> ; needsterminal
> 
> That line tells elinks to release the terminal to the process.  A sample
> line looks like
> 
> audio/x-pn-realaudio; mplayer -playlist %s ; needsterminal
> 
> That line causes mplayer to start when I select a real audio link on a
> web site.  Keyboard focus is given to mplayer.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:48:42PM +0400, Sergei V. Fleytin wrote:
> > Hello, Kenny and others.
> > 
> > >>>>> "KH" == Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> writes:
> > 
> > KH> hi.  The mailing list isn't high traffic.  They use either the
> > KH> mailing lists or an IRC channel for support.  I see the same
> > KH> problem, but don't have any solution.  The elinks developers will
> > KH> need to figure this one out because I can't.  It happens with zinf
> > KH> as well as mplayer, so it should be easy to produce.
> > 
> > 
> > Just and idea. Why don't use screen to launch a player? It would be
> > possible then to switch between browser and player windows. I didn't
> > try it myself yet but I think it should work since this very thrick is
> > suggested by the author of centericq for launching web browser from a
> > centericq.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Sergei.
> > 
> > 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Ralph W. Reid]

I usually run mplayer from within lynx, but I should think the same
technique should work on your system.  While mplayer is running
(buffer values being displayed, maybe some audio playing, etc), try
pressing CTRL-C.  On my system, pressing CTRL-C causes mplayer to
produce a message about an interrupt taking place in some module or
other, and then mplayer terminates.

HTH, and have a _great_ day!

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:50:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
> mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
> fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
> locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
> get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
> Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
> wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
> place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.
> 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Steve Holmes]

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Well, it works fine with lynx; I can skip forward and back (with local
files) and all that works fine.  I just type 'q' and control goes right
back to lynx like it should.  For whatever reason, I can't get that to
work with elinks.  I think elinks keeps keyboard control but won't
respond til mplayer or zinf is killed.  I generally had to kill it from
an adjacent consol to get things moving again.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> I usually run mplayer from within lynx, but I should think the same
> technique should work on your system.  While mplayer is running
> (buffer values being displayed, maybe some audio playing, etc), try
> pressing CTRL-C.  On my system, pressing CTRL-C causes mplayer to
> produce a message about an interrupt taking place in some module or
> other, and then mplayer terminates.
> 
> HTH, and have a _great_ day!
> 
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:50:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
> > mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
> > fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
> > locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
> > get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
> > Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
> > wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
> > place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.
> > 
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Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Sean McMahon]

I wonder if you can also put the process in the background then bring elinks up
to the forground. Never tried it but I never thought you were supposed to have
that ability.
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Subject: Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player


> I usually run mplayer from within lynx, but I should think the same
> technique should work on your system.  While mplayer is running
> (buffer values being displayed, maybe some audio playing, etc), try
> pressing CTRL-C.  On my system, pressing CTRL-C causes mplayer to
> produce a message about an interrupt taking place in some module or
> other, and then mplayer terminates.
>
> HTH, and have a _great_ day!
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:50:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: RIPEMD160
> >
> > When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
> > mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
> > fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
> > locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
> > get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
> > Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
> > wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
> > place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.
> >
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Elinks: Controling Media Player

[Steve Holmes]

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When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my
mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work
fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer.  I'm sort of
locked out.  I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't
get into mplayer.  When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back.
Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't
wanna wait for the file to end.  I think I'm missing an option some
place to get this to work right.  Can anyone help me out?  Thanks.

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