On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 15:08, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:42:51PM +0200, Wicher Minnaard wrote: > > I'm using a fifo to control mplayer, like this: > > mplayer -input file=~/.mplayer/fifo /path/to/moviefile > > > > Works like a charm. I expected to be able to specify this option in my > > ~/.mplayer/config like this: > > input=file=/path/to/.mplayer/fifo > > > > That doesn't work (the fifo is not read), but no related errors occur in > > verbose output of mplayer. > > Seems to work, at least the parsing part. > input=file=bla > in the config file results in "Can't stat bla: No such file or directory" > Truly weird, because over here, it doesn't even look for bla if I put in "input=file=bla". I don't get the error you are getting. But as I mentioned in the original email, it's parsing all right in so far as that it throws an error if the syntax is wrong, such as when I put in "input=file:bla". If I strace mplayer there's no sign at all it's statting bla. Unless I add "-input file=blargh" on the command line, of course, as then I get the same error as you do. My mplayer (r30554) was configured with --cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --host-cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --datadir=/usr/share/mplayer --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-arts --disable-kai --enable-network --disable-joystick --disable-nemesi --disable-bl --disable-ftp --disable-fribidi --disable-inet6 --disable-libnut --disable-cdparanoia --charset=UTF-8 --disable-tv-bsdbt848 --disable-ivtv --disable-dvb --disable-dvbhead --disable-pvr --disable-tv-v4l1 --disable-radio-v4l2 --disable-radio-bsdbt848 --disable-liba52 --disable-musepack --disable-libbs2b --disable-pnm --disable-tga --disable-xanim --disable-libopenjpeg --realcodecsdir=/usr/lib64/codecs --disable-directfb --disable-md5sum --disable-fbdev --disable-zr --disable-3dfx --disable-tdfxvid --disable-tdfxfb --disable-esd --disable-jack --disable-nas --disable-openal --disable-ossaudio --disable-dxr3 --disable-ggi --disable-dga1 --disable-dga2 --enable-menu --disable-vdpau --disable-vidix --disable-vidix-pcidb --disable-gui --enable-xvmc --with-xvmclib=XvMCW
