[MPlayer-users] Looking for examples using -idle

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:05 PM, glenn greenfield
<glenn.greenfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found references to -idle in man mplayer
>
> "Mostly useful in slave mode where MPlayer can be con-
>              trolled through input commands."
>
> But there is no mention of -idle in slave.txt
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt
>
> I've tried to use -idle but I either get this error:
>
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
>
> OR mplayer doesn't appear to go into 'idle'.
>
> After much searching I cannot locate a single example of how to
> actually use the -idle switch.  Can anyone point me to even one?
> Thank you very, very much.
>

mkfifo ~/.mplayer/cmd.fifo
mplayer -idle -slave -input file=${HOME}/.mplayer/cmd.fifo &
echo "loadfile /media/file.avi' >> ~/.mplayer/cmd.fifo