[MPlayer-users] Re: starting mplayer in pause mode

[Alban Bedel]

Hi alpha0x89 at yahoo.de,

on Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:41:41 +0200 you wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 19:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > I was wondering if there was a way to start mplayer on pause mode ?
> 
> echo -n p | mplayer file
> 
> Then you can't control mplayer via console (but still via window). An
> odd way to keep control from a console is doing something like this:
> 
> mkfifo pipe
> echo -n p > pipe & mplayer file < pipe
> 
> And then from another console:
> 
> cat > fifo
> p[Ctrl-d]*[Ctrl-d]/[Ctrl-d]q[Ctrl-d]...

What about:

mkfifo pipe
echo -n p > pipe & mplayer -input file=pipe file

Then both terminal and widow should still work.

	Albeu
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