[MPlayer-users] Mplayer in Windows, No way to make FIFO to use with "-slave -input file=fifo"?

[Joey Parrish]

On 7/5/07, Joe Thielen <joe at joethielen.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get Mplayer working in a remote-controllable fashion in
> Windows.  I can do this on Linux easy with:
>
> mplayer -slave -input file=mp_pipe *.mp3
>
> Or is there another way to do this?  I just want to be able to do dumb
> things like "echo pause > mp_pipe" while mplayer is running...

Just use stdin.  Run mplayer -slave and just type pause on your
terminal.  I know it's not a FIFO, but do you really need one?

--Joey