[mgp-users 01349] Re: Problem running mgp with external programs like mpeg_play (on Mac OS X)

[Uwe Rempler <rempler@mechbau.uni-stuttgart.de>]

hi,

thanks for the fast reply - sorry i bothered you with my lame question - 
should have looked for myself for this options (RTFM ;-)...
in case somebody having similar problems here's the terminal command 
line that works (with borderless videos) for my system:

xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -exec /sw/bin/mgp -U test.mgp

test.mgp:
------------
[...]
%system "mpeg_play -controls off -dither gray \
 -end 1 -framerate 40 -position +200+250 \
 videos/posflevp/sand_h20.mpg"
[...]

didn't need to add -g >> had a few problems with that option and window 
managers (tried windowmaker, twm and blackbox) because i couldn't manage 
to get rid of the window decorations so i commented the window managers 
out from .xinitrc

uwe


p.s.: mr. nishida thank you very much for this great program - you've 
done a great job ;-) - we (some institutes from the university of 
stuttgart - germany) are using exclusively mgp for our presentations and 
are very happy with it
btw - we get a lot of credits for the appearance of the presentations - 
especially for the glueless integration of movie clips :-)


nishida@csl.sony.co.jp wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> You need to add -U option to use %system command.
> And you might need to use -g option to put mpeg_play on the top of the mgp.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Yoshifumi Nishida
> nishida@csl.sony.co.jp
>
>
> From: Uwe Rempler <rempler@mechbau.uni-stuttgart.de>
> Subject: [mgp-users 01347] Problem running mgp with external programs like mpeg_play (on Mac OS X)
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:24:44 +0200
> Message-ID: <>
>
> > hi list,
> > 
> > i'm wondering if it is possible to call a program from within the 
> > presentation (on mac os x) like under linux with %system "mpeg_play 
> > test.mpg"...
> > mgp works fine with os x but i can't get external movie players like 
> > mpeg_play to work....
> > my test.mgp looks like:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > %default 1 size 5, fore "darkblue"
> > %deffont "Standard" tfont "times.ttf"
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %page
> > %pcache 1 1 0 0
> > %bimage "jpgs/1.jpg" 1024x768
> > .
> > %system "mpeg_play -controls off -dither gray \
> >   -end 1 -framerate 40 -position +200+250 \
> >   videos/posglevp/sand_h20.mpg"
> > [...]
> > 
> > i'm starting mgp (from terminal) with:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -exec /sw/bin/mgp test.mgp  -- -quartz
> > 
> > my system:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > lovely little ibook g4 (really nice toy ;-) with mac ox x v10.3.5, 
> > xdarwin v1.3.0 (from fink), a self-compiled mpeg_play v2.4 and mgp 
> > v1.11a (don't think v1.11b would make any differences for my problem - i 
> > can live with the ctrl-flickering for now :-)
> > 
> > hopefully somebody's got a tip for me...
> > uwe
> > 
> > 
> > 
>