[Gllug] Instructional AV player

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On 17 Aug 2010, DL Neil verbalised:

> Chris Bell wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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)

You might want to look at mpd, a daemon which provides playlists,
pause-resume and a lot else over the network to authenticated clients.

There is a python-mpd module: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-mpd/>.
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