[MPlayer-users] control mplayer

[Ivo]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 17:55, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:01:41AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> > 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
>
> I see no point in this, if you really want you should be able to do this
> with a command fifo and e.g. netcat. Or a similar tool that supports
> SSL.
> I anything, it would be nice to have a howto for doing this, but
> bloating MPlayer wouldn't be nice...

I agree. Although it would be fun to control mplayer remotely without having 
a shellaccount on that box, adding something like that would open up a 
whole new can of worms (I believe that's the saying). If somebody needs 
that functionality, it's best done with a wrapper script, though it might 
be tricky or impossible to periodically request a screenshot of mencoder 
that's monitoring and encoding a security cam :)

Anyway,

> P.S.: I am still undecided if that was supposed to be a joke...

So was I :-)

--Ivo