[MPlayer-users] Re: suspend background tasks on play

[Jonathan Rogers]

Joe Barnett wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a way to have an external script excecute when
> a stop play or pause command is received. The external script could then
> pause the background task, or anything else.

You could write a simple pass-through front end that used slave mode to 
control mplayer and ran extra commands when pausing and unpausing.

Jonathan Rogers