[MPlayer-dev-eng] Communicating with mplayer

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:18:35 +0100
Jonas Jensen <jbj at knef.dk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 23:33, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > You can use it with for exemple :
> >   mkfifo mpSlave
> >   mplayer -slave-file mpSlave ....
> > and then you can :
> >   echo 'pause' > mpSlave
> 
> There's no need for this patch, it can all be done with a simple shell
> redirection. This works in bash:
> 
> mkfifo mpSlave
> mplayer -slave mymovie.avi <>mpSlave

That's right but this prevent using -use-stdin at the same time
for example.

Aurélien