[MPlayer-users] script control of playback

[Morris Beverly]

OK, I'm a complete dope.  I haven't been able to figure out how to send 
text commands (like pause, get_time_pos, etc) to the stdin so that I can 
control mplayer.

I'm using the -slave option, but I'm just not getting the commands to do 
anything.  I can get the -input commands to work fine with my input.conf 
file and keystroke input.  I've tried to use the run command in the 
input.conf file:    F5 run echo "pause".  I've also tried to run shell 
scripts with   echo "pause"  in them via the run command as in:   F5 run 
pause_script.sh  and it simply echos the text to the console without 
affecting mplayer.

The reason I need this is so I can run multiple commands with a single 
keystroke rather than having a separate keystroke for each command.

I assume this is a simple shell thing, possibly related to redirecting 
output, that I'm not getting.

Any ideas?

thanks,

morris





Steve Dibb wrote:

> Morris Beverly wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone have examples or pointers to articles on using scripts to 
>> control playback in mplayer?
>>
>> In particular, I'd like to find a way to start in paused mode at a 
>> particular frame or time and, once started in playback, pause on a 
>> particular frame or time.
>
>
> Morris, I've written a script which will work with LIRC and will save 
> playback position on exit, and resume playback when you start the same 
> file again.  I don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.
>
> Dev site is down, but you can download it from my website: 
> http://wonkabar.org/~steve/downloads/mplayer-resume/
>
> Steve
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