[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Create an async interface to Slave mode

[Jan Knutar]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:42, Brian Murray wrote:
> Being able to send a command to mplayer without having a pre-existing
> open channel to it (such as stdin/out), and recieve data back. Unless
> theres already an interface I overlooked... :S

I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config :

input= file=/home/jan/mplayerctrl

where mplayerctrl is a fifo. This lets me send commands to MPlayer.
Would be nice to have another fifo to read output, too, of course :)