[MPlayer-users] remote-control mplayer

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:02:27PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> You are not using the named pipe but actually stdin, so you probably get
> a broken pipe.
> mkfifo /tmp/cmd
> mplayer -input file=/tmp/cmd -slave /path/to/some/file
> echo pause >/tmp/cmd

Thanks :-)

Then again, is there a way to tell mplayer not to quit when it reaches EOF,
but wait for next command instead?