[MPlayer-users] control mplayer

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/10/05, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 September 2005 03:32, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Mara Miranda wrote:
> > > I want to know if is posible to control a mplayer running in one
> > > console, from another one. Or how could I give orders to that mplayer
> > > if I can't access to the console where it was created.
> >
> > Assumiing that you're running Linux, or some reasonably close relative,
> > and that I'm not misremembering anything important:
> >
> > mkfifo mplayer-remote-control
> > mplayer -slave -input file=mplayer-remote-control
> >
> > And then, when you want to tell MPlayer to execute "command":
> >
> > echo "command" > mplayer-remote-control
> >
> > from any console. IIRC, "command" can be any of the commands listed in
> > DOCS/tech/slave.txt.
> 
> Maybe it would be a nice idea if MPlayer supported some sort of network
> connection. It could listen on a port for connections and accept slave
> commands from there. With proper authentication and tunneled over ssh or
> something, this could be quite neat, because the above only works if you
> have a shell account on the box that's running mplayer. One could even
> implement some sort of mini-webserver that accepts encapsulated slave
> commands and some extra web specific commands and mplayer could be remotely
> controled by a browser ;-) Imagine mplayer monitoring a webcam or something
> and you can remotely switch cams and periodically get a still image etc. :)

Good idea, that way MPlayer will grow even bigger and be a lot less
maintainable. How about adding a TCP/IP stack, an SQL database, and a
search engine to MPlayer while you're at it? ;-)

Guillaume
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