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. On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 9:54:26 PM UTC+2, Chris Morgan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:21 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > 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 > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
