Re: [gentoo-user] opening movies in the current mplayer window

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:04:58 +0200, Alex Fansky wrote:

> I am using kde-3.5.6 and gmplayer as frontend to mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2.
> When I doubleclick on the video file, it is opened in new mplayer
> window. Is there any ways to make it be played in already runned
> mplayer instead of previously opened movie, like it do MS Windows video
> players?

There's no obvious way of doing this with gmplayer, but as you're using
KDE, you can do it with kmplayer by using this script to load the video
file

#!/bin/sh

PLAYER=$(dcop kmplayer-* | head -n 1)
if [[ ${PLAYER} ]]; then
	dcop ${PLAYER} KMediaPlayer openURL "$1"
else
	kmplayer "$1"
	fi


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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