> As you already did it, and reinventing the wheel is useless... > Any clue or code to share ? ;) The "nothing to play"- Video runs in an endless loop mplayer -idle -slave -input file=/tmp/mplayer-input -loop 0 idle_video.avi When there's something to play, I send something like echo "loadfile action1.avi" >/tmp/mplayer-input That file plays again in a loop until the user is fed up with it, and the "idle" video starts again, again in a loop. If the video should play just once, I would have started it by a sequence like loop -1 loadfile action1.avi loadfile idle_video.avi append Then I would at regular intervals issue get_file_name to find out if the action1.avi was finished playing to then reset it to an endless loop. Good luck! Greets, Kiste
