[MPlayer-users] mplayer-pause

[Oliver Seitz]

man mplayer

[...]

  -input <commands>
         This option can be used to configure certain parts of the  input
         system.  Paths are relative to ~/.mplayer/.

         Available commands are:
[...]
            file=<filename>
                 Read commands from the given file.  Mostly useful with a
                 FIFO.
                 NOTE:  When  the given file is a FIFO MPlayer opens both
                 ends so you can do several ’echo "seek  10"  >  mp_pipe’
                 and the pipe will stay valid.

[...]
  -slave (also see -input)
         Switches  on slave mode, in which MPlayer works as a backend for
         other programs.  Instead of intercepting keyboard events,
MPlay&#8208;
         er will read commands separated by a newline (\n) from stdin.
         NOTE:  See  -input  cmdlist  for  a  list  of slave commands and
         DOCS/tech/slave.txt for their description.  Also,  this  is  not
         intended to disable other inputs, e.g. via the video window, use
         some other method like -input nodefault-binds:conf=/dev/null for
         that.

Greets,
Kiste