bashpipemplayer

How to make mplayer continue after pausing it via a named pipe?

Create a named pipe.

mkfifo /tmp/mplayer-control

Run it in slave mode 

mplayer -slave -input file=/tmp/mplayer-control mymusic.mp3

Now in another terminal i can make mplayer pause or quit

echo "pause" > /tmp/mplayer-control
echo "quit" > /tmp/mplayer-control

How to make mplayer continue when to issue a command via echo "pause" > /tmp/mplayer-control.

All my failed tries.

echo "continue" > /tmp/mplayer-control
echo "go on" > /tmp/mplayer-control
echo "play" > /tmp/mplayer-control
Solution

  • pause is a toggle. So to resume after a pause, you send another pause command.