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

[Kevin DeKorte]

This works well and all the arrow keys and such still work

echo pause | mplayer -slave Media.file

Where Media.file is file you want to play.

Kevin

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:45 pm, Alban Bedel wrote:
> 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