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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst index 4810ee9ea5..a842187137 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst @@ -1743,16 +1743,21 @@ - ``mplayer --slang=jpn example.mkv`` plays a Matroska file with Japanese subtitles. ---slave - Switches on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend for other - programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read - commands separated by a newline (\n) from stdin. See also ``--input``, - suboption ``file``. - - *NOTE*: See ``DOCS/tech/slave.txt`` for a description of slave commands. - Also, this is not intended to disable other inputs, e.g. via the video - window. If you want to do that, use something like - ``--input=nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null``. +--slave-broken + Switches on the old slave mode. This is for testing only, and incompatible + to the removed --slave switch. + + *NOTE*: Changes incompatible to slave mode applications have been made. In + particular, the status line output was changed, which is used by some + applications to determine the current playback position. This switch has + been renamed to prevent these applications from working with this version + of mplayer, because it would lead to buggy and confusing behavior only. + Moreover, the slave mode protocol is so horribly bad that it should not be + used for new programs, nor should existing programs attempt to adapt to the + changed output and use the --slave-broken switch. Instead, a new, saner + protocol should be developed (and will, if there is enough interest). + + This affects smplayer, smplayer2, mplayosx, and others. --slices, --no-slices Drawing video by 16-pixel height slices/bands, instead draws the |