[MPlayer-users] Mplayer in Windows, No way to make FIFO to use with "-slave -input file=fifo"?

[joe at joethielen.com]

Unless there is another way to do it, yes.  I want to be able to
remotely control mplayer, which means I need some means of real-time
control of it.  I wish I could just use Linux, but I need to be able
to do this on a Windows machine because I'll also be controlling other
Windows apps.

On 7/6/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Joe Thielen <joe at joethielen.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get Mplayer working in a remote-controllable fashion in
> > Windows.  I can do this on Linux easy with:
> >
> > mplayer -slave -input file=mp_pipe *.mp3
> >
> > Or is there another way to do this?  I just want to be able to do dumb
> > things like "echo pause > mp_pipe" while mplayer is running...
>
> Just use stdin.  Run mplayer -slave and just type pause on your
> terminal.  I know it's not a FIFO, but do you really need one?
>
> --Joey
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