-slave patch by Kilian A. Foth <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@3323 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/DOCS/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/mplayer.1
index 4a3630a7e7..413dcbaa84 100644
--- a/DOCS/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux
 .RB [ \-bpp\ depth ]
 .RB [ \-flip ]
 .RB [ \-playlist\ <filename> ]
+.RB [ \-slave ]
 .I - or file or device
 .PP
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -246,6 +247,19 @@ set aspect ratio of your screen. Examples:
 .TP
 .B \-playlist <file>
 play files according to this filelist (1 file/row).
+
+.TP
+.B \-slave
+This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use
+of mplayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard
+events, mplayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin.
+See section 
+.B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL
+for the syntax.
+
+
+
+
 .IP
 .SH "ADVANCED OPTIONS"
 .TP
@@ -549,6 +563,20 @@ the DivX4 codec with -vc divx4)
 
 7 or 8          adjust saturation
 
+.SH SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL
+If the -slave switch is given, playback is controlled by a 
+line-based protocol with the following tokens:
+.TP
+       stop            pause playback
+
+play            resume playback
+
+seek <NUM>      continue at second NUM
+
+skip <NUM>      skip NUM seconds (may be negative)
+
+quit            exit mplayer
+
 .IP
 .SH FILES AND DIRECTORIES
 .TP