> man 7 juke # juke(7) > man 7 playlistfs # playlistfs(7) > > I have not yet looked deeply enough into those, but as far as I recall, > you create a decoder for each file-type as an external program.
right. > I have no idea how things like fast-forward/backward work, for instance they don't, as far as I know. > (pause, etc). stop/continue reading from the decoder, I think. > And I have no idea how I easily create playlists. > It's shell magic for mplayer, and GUIs using mplayer > may also provide ways - as I read the manpages, > I am supposed to write maps myself. :-( it is possible to generate (template) maps. either when you get the music from cd (readcd does this) or using the tags that are present in (e.g.) mp3 files. > Supposed those things are easily done, 'porting mplayer' > becomes 'port the codecs, create a decoder for each of those'. > At least for the audio-part. But imho it works for video, too. > > > Speaking of those manpages, what is audio(7)? I don't have that manpage. since audio(7) is not there, intro(7) makes me guess that will be about 'proprietary data that is not distributed outside Bell Laboratories'. Axel.
