First of all, thank you very much! Reimar Döffinger ha scritto: > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:58:08PM +0100, Vincenzo De Florio wrote: > > > >> >> The above line renders myfile.avi, though the heartbeat command is >> >> completely ignored. I tried other variants, e.g. via ~/.mplayer/config , >> >> but still with the same result. So I tried with >> >> >> >> mplayer -heartbeat-cmd "echo try this > trythis.txt" myfile.avi >> >> >> > > > > Works just fine for me, only if playing video though. > > > You got me! Indeed I had specified "-novideo". Now the echo works, thank you very much, though my other command does not: $ mplayer.exe -heartbeat-cmd "/usr/local/bin/sendHeartbeat.exe localhost" Spiderman1.mkv MPlayer Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) SSE2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE getch2: 6 can't get number of input events [disabling console input] Playing Spiderman1.mkv. [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_MPEG/L3), -aid 0, -alang und [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [avc1] 688x480 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== AO: [dsound] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 688 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.53:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [directx] 688x480 => 734x480 Planar YV12 New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. The system cannot find the path specified. The system cannot find the path specified. 0/ 0 33% 7% 1.2% 6 0 A: 37.6 V: 37.6 A-V: -0.005 ct: 0.003 0/ 0 31% 7% 1.2% 6 0 On the other hand, the heartbeat-cmd string is a valid command: $ /usr/local/bin/sendHeartbeat.exe localhost InitLibrary_sender: sending data to 'PCINF55' (IP : 127.0.0.1) sending OK >From what above I understood that the problem was the path to the file, so I tried first by copying the sendHeartbeat command to the current working dir. As a result, no "The system cannot find the path specified." anymore, but the command seemed not to have any visible effect (no heartbeat was received by my watchdog). Any clue? Thanks in advance > > > >> >> P.S. I'm also sending this message to Mplayer-dev-eng . >> >> >> > > It doesn't belong there. > > > Duly noted down, thanks. Greetings, Vincenzo. _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users