[MPlayer-users] Bash mplayer slave

[Floris]

Op Sun, 20 May 2012 21:59:22 +0200 schreef Oliver Seitz <info at vtnd.de>:

>
>>>
>>> It is possible - it's useless to modify the output of the "echo",
>>> though. You have to modify MPlayer's output.
>>>
>>> Greets,
>>> Kiste
>>
>> Can you give me an example?
>> I hope it can be done without rebuilding mplayer,
>> because I write a bash script for some one else.
>
>      #!/bin/bash
>      mkfifo /tmp/phone/pipe
>      mplayer -slave -quiet -idle -input file=/tmp/phone/pipe music.mp3 |  
> cut -d "=" -f 2 &
>
>      while [ i > 1 ]; do
>          sleep 1
>          echo get_percent_pos > /tmp/phone/pipe
>      done
>
> Greets,
> Kiste

Thanks!

that is the trick.

Flo