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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