Re: mplayer keyboard control

On 8/31/16, benoit felix wrote: > Hiya > I managed to make mplayer the default video player in mc. It is all fine but > the keyboard control does not work anymore (eg. pause, stop, etc). How exactly are you launching mplayer? How did you configure mc to use it? And do you

Re: mplayer keyboard control

mplayer must be running in the foreground in order to receive your keyboard events. I've found the best way to use mc for music control is to modify your menu file (F9 -> Command -> Edit menu file) and add entries with slave commands for xmms/deadbeef/whatever running elsewhere. eg: =+ t r

mplayer keyboard control

Hiya I managed to make mplayer the default video player in mc. It is all fine but the keyboard control does not work anymore (eg. pause, stop, etc). I initially thought that I would have to put some prefix key like Esc-Tab for the autocompletion in the mc command line but nope. How to tell mc to