On Fri, July 7, 2006 11:23 am, Leonard Burton wrote:
> I am researching setting up an application in PHP where it would play
> various videos.
>
> I played with PHP and Totem but it didn't work exactly as planned.
>
> This code got the videos playing
> <snip>
> exec("totem --fullscreen million_dollar_weekend.mpeg");
> exec("totem --fullscreen we_use_power_edit.mp4");
> </snip>
>
> The problem here is that when the video stops totem stays open and
> therefore my script does not realize that it is time to play the next
> video.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to get them to stop properly?
man totem *MIGHT* list a command line argument to make it play one
video and quit...
Or you might contact the totem team and get them to add it for you.
> Is there another/better player than totem? Videolan does not have the
> level of command line control that totem does.
>
> Is there a pcntl function that might do the trick?
You could run totem in the background, and poll the process PID and
see how "busy" it is, maybe...
> I could keep a list of the videos and lengths and then have my script
> issue a kill comand once the length of time plus some play time has
> ellapsed.
This is hinky, as the user could easily "pause" the video, presumably...
Random Thought:
Perhaps PHP GTK http://gtk.php.net already has a video player of some
kind with "hooks" for you to know when the video is finished.
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