pausing mplayer remotely

dninja · 2007-09-04 16:44:22

I've got a nice new keyboard with loads of extra buttons, one of them is play/pause. I'd love to tie this to mplayer and was wondering if there was any way to issue commands to an already running player through a script.

I don't mean that I want the button to just act as pressing the p button while the terminal with mplayer on has the focus, I mean at any time I want to be able to hit the button and issue a command, through a bash script, to mplayer to pause or restart.

Hope this makes sense.

Shaika-Dzari · 2007-09-07 00:36:57

You need to run mplayer as slave and to use a FIFO.

Exemple with Fvwm:
http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1755

@+

dninja · 2007-09-07 13:36:09

That looks spot on, I'll have a go through it, thanks

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#1 2007-09-04 16:44:22

pausing mplayer remotely

#2 2007-09-07 00:36:57

Re: pausing mplayer remotely

#3 2007-09-07 13:36:09

Re: pausing mplayer remotely

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