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 at 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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