[MPlayer-users] Re: New Mplayer Release???

[Jan Knutar]

> Note that if you only use the pipe -slave is not needed. -slave just
> change the type of input read from stdin. -input file=.. just add
> another command input. So if you ommit -slave you can still control
> mplayer from the terminal.

Oh, very nice! I expected input=file= to be some freopen() hack someone 
had snuck into CVS when nobody had been looking, but this is absolutely 
perfect! :-)