Re: [MPlayer-users] MEDIA SYSTEM

[Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jamil Buchalla Neto,

on Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:53:27 -0300 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm building a system to play movie and audio files with mplayer and the 
> VESA driver (it's the better driver that works with my riva128 TVOut)
> 
> I'm developing a menu system controled by LIRC that will get files from 
> my HD/CDROM and mount a playlist.
> 
> I wish to know 2 things:
> -What are the playlist format for MPlayer?
        Actually there is m3u, asx and pls (winamp playlist).
        But it's easy to add a new format, just write a parser ;)
> -What should I use to program this menu  VESA (where can I get support 
> for this), FrameBuffer, DirectFB?
> 
> 
> I'm a begginer at C programming but I'm not looking for the most easy 
> solution but for the best and most portable one.
> If in the future I buy an ATI Rage128 card I do not wish to rewrite the 
> hole code to make my menu compatible with mplayer and the VO driver that 
> I'll have to use.
My suggestion is to use mplayer osd (it's perhaps a bad idea but it will be
portable as mplayer is :)
        Albeu