[MPlayer-users] starting mplayer in pause mode

[alpha0x89 at yahoo.de]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 19:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a way to start mplayer on pause mode ?

echo -n p | mplayer file

Then you can't control mplayer via console (but still via window). An odd way 
to keep control from a console is doing something like this:

mkfifo pipe
echo -n p > pipe & mplayer file < pipe

And then from another console:

cat > fifo
p[Ctrl-d]*[Ctrl-d]/[Ctrl-d]q[Ctrl-d]...

(But I could not use arrow keys in this way.)