Have any suggestions on using a remote with mplayer?

I have a mp3anywhere (mp3remote) from x10.com, receiver model number MR26A. There is an xmms plugin for it called x10mp3 but nothing generic or for mplayer. If any programs existed that would launch commands when receiving input from the remote, I think the "slave mode protocol" could be used to control an existing process of mplayer.

Any ideas?

I wrote a perl module to get the commands from a x10 infrared receiver. Its part of a larger program but it would not be difficult to create another perl script that uses it just to send the commands to mplayer through the slave protocol. You're welcome to it if you think it'll be useful. -Angel