[MPlayer-users] Anyway to control Mplayer over Netzwork?

[Martin AleXander Walschik]

Hi List,

i'm writeing a gui-frontend to control Mplayer with the slave commands 
over network.

My current "hack" is useing netcat to open a udp-socket connection.

Start with:

netcat -u -l -p 8000 | mplayer -slave <file>

Sending a test-command with:
echo "pause" |netcat -u localhost 8000


Is there anyway for mplayer to listen direkt in slave mode on an upd/tcp 
port? Or have i to write a daemon-programm or patching mplayer?

Bytheway.. why the stdout information wich prints mplayer are so 
terrible formated?


regards

AleX