playd.sh mplayer sh wrapper

killasmurf86 · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2010 Posts: 6

Hello gentoo users.

For quite some time I've been developing mplayer wrapper script in sh (ye /bin/sh, not bash)
It should work on Linux quite well (Was tested on Ubuntu about week ago)

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in this.
The basic idea is to control mplayer via pipe.

playd itself can be invoked from console or window manager such as Fvwm etc...

Playd can make playlists, it recently learned how to get position in playlists (works well if playlist doesn't have double entries) and many other things you expect from audio player.

Playd doesn't use IDv[23] metadata. It only works with filenames.
Creating new playlists with playd is very fast (will probably outperform many complex players), because playd won't test mime data (unless totally necessary), but rely on file extension.

It can also play streams common, import common playlist formats, play video and much more. Read manual for more.

Playd is very light (less than 600 lines of code)
http://hg.bsdroot.lv/pub/aldis/playd.sh/

It depens on:
* mplayer
* sed
* awk
* jot
* lsof or porcstat
* /bin/sh

It is developed on FreeBSD, but should work on any Linux.
On NetBSD, OpenBSD playd is not tested yet

Perhaps someone would like to make ebuild for Gentoo.
Feedback welcomed: playd [at] bsdroot [dot] lv

P.S.
Sorry if this was supposed to be in Unsupported Software section
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Satoshi · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 180 Location: Brazil

Looks interesting, but I don't know how to read the manpage I downloaded from git, so I haven't used it yet.

EDIT: Used it, read the manpage and didn't quite get what it is for. What does it do that mplayer can't do just as easily? The arguments to playd seem just a renaming of mplayer options.

Sorry, didn't really get it.

I don't use playlists, so if you could exemplify with some use cases that show how playd would be useful, I'd like that very much.

killasmurf86 · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2010 Posts: 6

Hello! well One thing it does that mplayer doesn't is, it creates playlists recursively

It starts mplayer is background, and then you control it with playd.... with commands that are easier to remember....

It is designed to be used from console, or from menu (like Fvwm menu)..
The idea is that you don't need mplayer gui to control it

To read man page either place it to ~/man/man1/ or use