[MPlayer-users] control mplayer

[Mara Miranda]

Thanks a lot Wanderer, that works perfectly for me.

2005/9/9, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net>:
> Mara Miranda wrote:
> 
> > I want to know if is posible to control a mplayer running in one
> > console, from another one. Or how could I give orders to that mplayer
> > if I can't access to the console where it was created.
> 
> Assumiing that you're running Linux, or some reasonably close relative,
> and that I'm not misremembering anything important:
> 
> mkfifo mplayer-remote-control
> mplayer -slave -input file=mplayer-remote-control
> 
> And then, when you want to tell MPlayer to execute "command":
> 
> echo "command" > mplayer-remote-control
> 
> from any console. IIRC, "command" can be any of the commands listed in
> DOCS/tech/slave.txt.
> 
> --
>        The Wanderer
> 
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> side of it.
> 
> A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them.
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