On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old).
You made me look, and I found that I was missing a couple of packages. I now have:
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch mplayer-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.i386 mplayer-docs-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64
These are the most recent imports from rpmforge.
That may be, but that's actually a *very* old version of mplayer. The most recent "release" of mplayer is 1.0rc2, and *that's* dated 10/7/07 (see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog). Most folks run SVN snapshots of mplayer -- rpmfusion's package for Fedora, e.g., is a SVN snapshot from 9/3/08. And even that is too old for a lot of things. For my HTPC, e.g., I compiled mplayer from my own SVN checkout so I could use VDPAU, which only got added within the last few months.
BUT: I looked again, and the man page remains the same.... I even checked the mplayer home site, and neither option is mentioned in their documentation.
I see -heartbeat-cmd on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html.