Hi,
How do I go about playing audio/video in the background?
The idea is to trigger the player then go deal with other I/O tasks.
Pointers appreciated.
Dudi
I think you'll want to be a little more specific.
Linux is a multi-tasking os, so you could start your player and your
other applications would continue to run.
Are you asking about how to do that if you start your player from a c
application? It should be possible to start the player via fork() and
exec() so your c application can continue to run.
Are you asking how to get the system to respond well even with the
high load of video/audio playback?
Chris
Wiki and or Google: systemd and see if that gives you any ideas.
The idea is to have a responsive daemon that will allow me to start/stop/resume audio/video playing while the other parts of the app are busy dealing with I/O etc.
All the players I found are interactive and does not daemonize…
Regards,
D.
Have a look at daemontools and mpg123:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/daemontools/mp3play-e.html
Maybe for video you can do something similar;)