view TOOLS/midentify.sh @ 32761:3ceeb62a1125

Improve the readability of dynamic labels which scroll. If the text of a dynamic label to be displayed is wider than the given length, it will be scrolled. Currently such a label starts scrolling immediately after it is placed and - even more unpleasant - the start of the text is randomly somewhere within the specified space of the label. Both makes it hard to track and to read. Now such a dynamic label starts left-aligned and begins scrolling through the specified space only after a short delay (2.5 seconds). Every time the start of the text nears the left margin again during the scrolling process it will stop and everything starts all over again, i.e. scrolling after a short delay.

#!/bin/sh
#
# This is a wrapper around the -identify functionality.
# It is supposed to escape the output properly, so it can be easily
# used in shellscripts by 'eval'ing the output of this script.
#
# Written by Tobias Diedrich <[e-mail]>
# Licensed under GNU GPL.

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage: midentify.sh <file> [<file> ...]"
	exit 1
fi

mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify "$@" 2>/dev/null |
	sed -ne '/^ID_/ {
	                  s/[]()|&;<>`'"'"'\\!$" []/\\&/g;p
	                }'