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
