[Gllug] Instructional AV player

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Tue, August 17, 2010 10:22, DL Neil wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
>> On Fri 13 Aug, DL Neil wrote:
>>> Is there an (FOSS, of course) audio (?and video) player which will
>>> stop-start, so as to present a series, one instruction at a time?
>>>
>>    Can you use something like speakup for blind users to read text
>> instructions off screen? You may get some hints from the Knoppix Adriane
>> distribution, compiled because Klaus Knopper has a wife who is blind,
>> and
>> it is apparently much used by other blind users.
>
>
> Thanks Chris (and others), that's another good idea.
>
> The problem I have run into is that I want to have a 'play-list' of
> files/tracks, but whereas everyone else uses the play-list to run
> through a series of tracks without intervention this application needs
> the stop/pause and some sort of intervention before continuing.
>

You can just send /video/freeze/toggle to LiVES.

For a full list of remote commands:
http://openmediacontrol.wetpaint.com/page/LiVES+commands

> I have discovered mpg123, a neat (and efficient) command line player.
> I've cobbled together a BASH script as proof of concept. Am wondering
> about using Python (yes, finally an excuse to have a play with the
> language!) to do the 'play list' bit and access mpg123's API at the
> appropriate moments... (a roll-your-own XMMS - or maybe not)
>
> Of course that only works for audio. Sadly the ogg123 alternative
> appears to be lacking support/community (or I was looking in the wrong
> places - again). This bare solution is about as simple as it can get,
> and thus just about within my meager skill-set.
>

If you are considering python, you could look at pyGame which has a very
basic video player, although it is not as fully featured as LiVES remote.

Salsaman.
http://lives.sf.net

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